Opinion ID: 212837
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Merits of Kitzmann’s Claims

Text: Rather than dismissing Kitzmann’s claims, the district court recast the claims as § 301 claims and resolved them on the merits. The district court granted summary judgment to the Defendants, concluding that under basic contract law analysis—whether analyzed under § 301 or state law—the - 10 - No. 09-6500 Kitzmann v. Local 619-M affiliation agreement properly ended Kitzmann’s term as compensated president of Local 619. Kitzmann, 2009 WL 2940202, at . We conduct de novo review of a district court’s grant of summary judgment. Int’l Union v. Cummins, Inc., 434 F.3d 478, 483 (6th Cir. 2006). Summary judgment is proper where no genuine issue of material fact exists and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c). We must construe all reasonable inferences in favor of the nonmoving party. Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574, 587 (1986). On appeal, Kitzmann argues: “The contract between Kitzmann and Local 619-M was enforceable throughout the full term” and “[t]he contract may not be amended or eliminated by amending the [union] constitution.” Appellant Br. at 11. Kitzmann provides no support for this argument. He has not pointed to any terms in any document that would suggest that he was required to be compensated for the entire term or that he was otherwise not an at-will employee. Likewise, Kitzmann has not pointed to any terms in any document that would suggest that the Local 619 constitution could not be amended or terminated by the affiliation agreement. Because Kitzmann has not developed this argument, we consider it waived on appeal. See Spirko v. Mitchell, 368 F.3d 603, 612 (6th Cir. 2004) (“It is a settled appellate rule that issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation, are deemed waived.”) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted).