Court Opinion

ID: 9473603
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:33:53.179731+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:37.145955
License: Public Domain

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur. If a state tort claim for wrongful discharge is encompassed also by the federal law pertaining to violation of the obligations of a collective bargaining agreement, federal law will control the case; and removal to a federal forum cannot be prevented merely by the structure of the state court pleadings. Olquin v. Consolidated Copper Co., 740 F.2d 1468, 1474 (9th Cir. 1984). Counsel must be alert to the consequence that in such cases the federal statute of limitations rule, not the limitations statute of the state, will be applicable. That is the case here.