Opinion ID: 6155
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Barrow's Pendent Emotional Distress Claim

Text: 25 The district court held Barrow's state-law claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress was barred by limitations as to defendant Cooper, and preempted by the Labor-Management Relations Act (LMRA) as to the other defendants. We need not look beyond the preemption question to resolve the case. 26 The LMRA preempts state-law emotional distress claims if those claims are related to employment discrimination. 38 In this case, Barrow claims his emotional distress resulted from trying to get work and not being able to get it. 39 Barrow's inability to get work, he alleges, derived from the age discrimination he says he suffered at the hands of the defendants. Accordingly, his claim relates to employment discrimination, and the district court correctly held it preempted by the LMRA. 40 27 AFFIRMED.