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Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
348 U.S. 437
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
25 of 25
Citing cases (total)
25
Treatment dates
1962
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. was overruled on Section 301 jurisdiction over individual employee contract rights. Smith v. Evening News Association held that Westinghouse's jurisdictional holding was no longer authoritative.
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The confirmed treatment is listed below. All 25 flagged citations have been read. Westinghouse is still cited for separate observations about statutory interpretation and federal jurisdiction.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

25 later cases cite Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.; 25 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court rejected Westinghouse's exclusion of individual employee rights under a collective bargaining agreement from Section 301 jurisdiction.

    Smith v. Evening News Association · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    However, subsequent decisions here have removed the underpinnings of Westinghouse and its holding is no longer authoritative as a precedent.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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