Court Opinion

ID: 9479741
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:27:49.897067+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:14.937231
License: Public Domain

BAUER, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I concur. I am happy to join Judge Grant’s position on the duty of fair representation as applied to members of the Joint Grievance Committee; all anyone can ask of a judicial tribunal, by whatever name or however it comes into being, is that the various members render fair and impartial decisions on the merits. This is “fair representation.” The standard is both easy to understand and, in the context of the situation in which it is, and will be, applied, complete.
I write principally to comment on footnote 5 of the opinion, which addresses the requirement in this circuit of intentional misconduct. That issue has been raised repeatedly in cases before this circuit and remains rather firmly in place. In fact, the standard has been upheld by this circuit in 19 cases since 1981, with a variety of members of this court serving on the various panels. If it is unique to this circuit, that fact does not seem to have caused any consternation to the court as an institution.