Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America et al. v. Richman Brothers Co. (348 U.S. 511)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided April 4, 1955 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 348 U.S. 511 · 75 S. Ct. 452
- Decided
- April 4, 1955
- Term
- October Term 1954
- Vote
- 5–3
- Majority author
- Justice Frankfurter
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Frankfurter delivered the opinion of the Court. In Weber v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 348 U. S. 468, decided last Monday on writ of certiorari to the Missouri Supreme Court, we considered the jurisdiction of a state court to enjoin conduct which in one aspect brought it within exclusive federal authority under the Taft-Hartley Act and in another constituted a violation of a state statute against restraint of trade. In this case we have to decide the question whether, under similar circumstances, a union has open to it, without resorting to the appellate procedures of the State and eventually of this Court, jurisdiction of a federal district court to enjoin the employer from pursuing his action in the state court. Petitioner, an unincorporated association of clothing workers, was responsible for peaceful picketing of a number of respondent’s retail stores, presumably to compel its factory employees to join the union. Respondent, an Ohio corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of men’s clothing in interstate commerce, filed suit in the Court of Common Pleas for Cuyahoga County, Ohio, alleging that the union’s conduct constituted a common-law conspiracy as well as a statutory and common-law restraint of trade. It prayed for temporary and permanent injunctions. The union brought proceedings to remove the case to the United States District Court for the Northern…
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