minor dispute
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 385 U.S. 196 - Walker v. Southern Railway Co. · 1966Most cited · 283 citing opinions
Provision for arbitration of a discharge grievance, a minor dispute, is not a matter of voluntary agreement under the Railway Labor Act; the Act compels the parties to arbitrate minor disputes before the National Railroad Adjustment Board established under the Act.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “minor dispute” — 280 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.