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Felter v. Southern Pacific Co., 359 U.S. 326 (1959)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Felter v. Southern Pacific Co., 359 U.S. 326 (1959)
Felter v. Southern Pacific Co. No. 269 Argued March 24, 1959 Decided April 27, 1959 359 U.S. 326
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
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The Railway Labor Act, as amended, authorizes labor organizations representing employees of carriers to make "checkoff" agreements with the carriers for the deduction from employees’ wages of periodic dues, initiation fees, and assessments, but it provides that
no such agreement shall be effective with respect to any individual employee until he shall have furnished the employer with a written assignment to the labor organization . . . which shall be revocable in writing after the expiration of one year.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and a Railroad entered into, and attempted to enforce against an employee of the Railroad, an agreement that there be used, as a necessary form for revoking an assignment, nothing other than a writing executed on a form furnished by the Brotherhood and forwarded by the Brotherhood to the Railroad.
Held: such a requirement may not be enforced against an individual employee, because it would restrict his statutory right to revoke an assignment after one year. Pp. 326-338.
256 F.2d 429 reversed.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Felter v. Southern Pacific Co., 359 U.S. 326 (1959) in 359 U.S. 326 Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T8C3KU8I2QYHIYB.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Felter v. Southern Pacific Co., 359 U.S. 326 (1959), in 359 U.S. 326, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T8C3KU8I2QYHIYB.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Felter v. Southern Pacific Co., 359 U.S. 326 (1959). cited in 1959, 359 U.S. 326. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=T8C3KU8I2QYHIYB.
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