Court Opinion

ID: 9491988
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Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:29:34.420989+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:55:03.172819
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ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
As the majority acknowledges, “the final product of the bargaining process may constitute evidence of a breach of duty [of fair representation] only if it can be fairly chai’acterized as so far outside a wide range of reasonableness that it is wholly irrational or arbitrary.” Air Line Pilots Ass’n, Int’l v. O’Neill, 499 U.S. 65, 78, 111 S.Ct. 1127, 113 L.Ed.2d 51 (1991) (citations and internal punctuation omitted). Given this exacting requirement, I share the view of the district court that plaintiff has not come forward with sufficient evidence to withstand summary judgment on his duty of fair representation claim. Williams v. Molpus, No. CIV.A.93-CV-40131-FL, 1997 WL 715455 (E.D.Mich. August 27, 1997).
I respectfully dissent.