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041061P.pdf   11/30/2004  B. Glenn Martin  v.  American Airlines
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-1061
   Western District of Missouri   
   Civil case - Labor law. Union did not breach its duty of fair 
   representation, as its decision to withdraw from the grievance process 
   was not so far outside the range of reasonableness as to be irrational; 
   claim that plaintiff's termination violated the Collective Bargaining 
   Agreement was preempted by the Railway Labor Act, and the district 
   court did not have jurisdiction to consider the merits of the claim; 
   none of the exceptions to RLA preemption relied upon by plaintiff apply 
   to this case. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and 
   Beam, Circuit Judge]