07-31-2015, 09:04 PM
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Steve Birmingham
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: eastern Mass.
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Cool! I've learned a few interesting things today 
Steve B
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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Steve, the path for a labor dispute under a collective bargaining agreement is very different from the path of a court case typically initiated in a trial level court. Here, the "appeal" is in the first instance to the Commissioner and THEN to a federal district (trial) court. A normal federal court case would be initiated at the district court level, with an appeal to a federal appeals court, and a (typically) discretionary appeal from there to the US Supreme Court. There is a similar path for state court cases.
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