
    William ORLEANS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY, Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union of New York and Vicinity, Defendants—Appellees.
    No. 02-9394.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    June 24, 2003.
    William Orleans, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant, pro se.
    Neil Abramson (Bernard M. Plum, John F. Fullerton III, of counsel), Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, for DefendantAppellee the New York Times Company.
    Richard A. Brook, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union of New York and Vicinity
    PRESENT: MINER, JACOBS, andCABRANES, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

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At a Stated Term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, at Foley Square, in the City of New York, on the 24th day of June, two thousand and three.

UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the judgment of the district court be, and it hereby is, AFFIRMED.

William Orleans appeals pro se from a judgment entered on October 9, 2002, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lynch, /.), dismissing his claims brought under section 301 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185, against his former employer, The New York Times Company, and the union that was his collective bargaining representative, the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers’ Union of New York and Vicinity.

We affirm the judgment for substantially the reasons set forth in the district court’s Order dated September 30, 2002.

For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court is hereby AFFIRMED.  