Published on Law360 (May 15, 2026, 3:17 PM EDT)
By Emily Brill
An Alaska federal judge won’t hold a cargo airline and union in contempt for refusing to schedule an arbitration hearing on behalf of a pilot who the judge ruled was owed one, but she will sanction them if they don’t schedule it within six months, she said.
In an order issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason said she can’t hold the Teamsters and Northern Air Cargo LLC in contempt of court now because she didn’t explicitly order them to schedule an arbitration hearing when she ruled in October that fired pilot Jeremy Wood was entitled to one. The judge will sanction them, though, if they don’t schedule it “within 180 days of the date of this order.” (read more)
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