Cases of note litigated by FHP attorneys.
- Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 8, v. City of Cleveland, Case No. CV-14-828692 (Ohio Ct. App. 8, Oct. 8, 2015) (affirming an arbitrator’s award in favor of this firm’s union client)
- Total Administrative Services Corp., v. Pipe Fitters Union Local 120 Ins. Fund, 2015 WL 5474671 (W.D. Wis. Sept. 17, 2015) (Fund’s motion to dismiss or otherwise transfer granted, and case transferred to Northern District of Ohio)
- Potts v. American Bottling Co., Case No. 5:12-CV-02688, 2015 WL 4664150 (N.D. Ohio Aug. 6, 2015) (granting a motion for sanctions on the attorney of an individual suing this firm’s union client)
- Potts v. American Bottling Co., 595 Fed.Appx. 540 (6th Cir. 2014)(finding an employee’s duty of fair representation claim against this firm’s union client was untimely)
- Int’l Longshoremen’s Assoc., Local Union No. 1982 v. Midwest Terminals of Toledo Int’l, Inc., 560 Fed.Appx. 529 (6th Cir. 2014) (ordering the Employer to create and contribute to ERISA funds for our union client’s members)
- Michael Reese v. Cleveland Bakers & Teamsters Pension Fund, 2014 WL 296867 (N.D. Ohio 2014) (confirming a pension fund’s benefit claim determination)
- Int’l Longshoremen’s Assoc., Local Union No. 1768 v. Midwest Terminals of Toledo Int’l, Inc., 49 F.Supp.3d 511 (N.D. Ohio 2014) (requiring an employer to arbitrate a grievance which originated between the expiration of an old CBA and the signing of a new retroactive CBA)
- Humility of Mary Health Partners v. Teamsters Local Union No. 377, 517 Fed.Appx. 301 (6th Cir. 2013) (Arbitration award in favor of Union confirmed.
- Teamsters Local Union No. 507, IBT v. American Red Cross Blood Services, Northern Ohio Region, 2011 WL 1899176, 190 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 3062 (N.D. Ohio 2011) (Union’s motion for summary judgment granted with employer ordered to arbitrate union’s grievance).
- Freeman v. Board of Trustees of the Teamsters Joint Council No. 41 Severance Plan, 2007 WL 756753, 41 Employee Benefits Case 2024 (N.D. Ohio 2007) (Trustees’ decision to deny participant’s request to recalculate his eligibility date was not arbitrary and capricious).
- Trustees of the Pipe Fitters Local Union No. 120 Insurance Fund v. AIG Life Insurance Company, 2007 WL 709783 (N.D. Ohio 2007) (Trustees’ motion for summary judgment granted with AIG ordered to pay medical expenses as primary insurer under coordination of benefits provision).
- Pipe Fitters Local Union No. 120 Insurance Fund, et al., v. S & E Contractors, Inc., 2006 WL 1345602 (N.D. Ohio 2006) (Trustees’ motion for summary judgment granted with contractor ordered to pay unpaid contributions and other amounts).
- Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. v. International Longshoremen’s Association, Local 1768-D, 268 F.Supp.2d 944 (N.D. Ohio 2003) (Arbitration award in favor of union confirmed).
- Martin v. Lake County Sewer Co., Inc., 269 F.3d 673 (6th Cir. 2001) (Claim that union violated LMRA and NLRA was barred by six-month statute of limitations period).