CONTINENTAL AIRLINES v. AIR LINE PILOTS ASS'N

No. 07-20835.

555 F.3d 399 (2009)

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, INTERNATIONAL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 13, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teresa S. Valderrama (argued), Jackson Lewis, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Julie Glass, Elizabeth Ginsburg, Air Line Pilots Ass'n Intern., Washington, DC, Matthew Edgar Babcock (argued), James W. Johnson, Air Line Pilots Ass'n, Herndon, VA, Patrick M. Flynn, Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before KING, HIGGINBOTHAM, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Captain Ronald McWhirter, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association ("ALPA"), appeals an order by the district court reversing the reinstatement order of the System Board of Adjustment ("SBA"), a creature of the Collective Bargaining Agreement ("CBA") between his employer, Continental Airlines, Inc. ("Continental") and ALPA. He claims that the district court failed to give the proper deference owed to the decision of the SBA and that the...

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