MOTOR COACH EMPLOYEES v. LOCKRIDGE

No. 76.

403 U.S. 274 (1971)

AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OF STREET, ELECTRIC RAILWAY & MOTOR COACH EMPLOYEES OF AMERICA ET AL. v. LOCKRIDGE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 14, 1971


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Isaac N. Groner argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Earle W. Putnam and Paul T. Bailey.

John L. Kilcullen argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Robert W. Green and Samuel Kaufman.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Solicitor General Griswold, Arnold Ordman, Dominick L. Manoli, Norton J. Come, and Linda Sher for the National Labor Relations Board, and by J. Albert Woll, Laurence Gold, and Thomas E. Harris for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Jonathan C. Gibson filed a brief for the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation as amicus curiae urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon, 359 U.S. 236 (1959), established the general principle that the National Labor Relations Act pre-empts state and federal court jurisdiction to remedy conduct that is arguably protected or prohibited by the Act. That decision represents the watershed in this Court's continuing effort to mark the extent to which the maintenance...

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