Mealey's (April 1, 2019, 12:47 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 1 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Alaska Airlines Inc. seeking to appeal a split en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision finding that a flight attendant’s state law claim regarding vacation time was sufficient to avoid the Railway Labor Act’s (RLA) arbitration requirement (Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al., No. 18-579, U.S. Sup.)....