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JOHNSON v. KAY

No. 965, Docket 87-7990.

860 F.2d 529 (1988)

Georgianna JOHNSON, Gwendolyn Gittens, Sara West, Sylvia Thompson, Gerard Despinosse, Dorothy Butler and Evelyn Gervais, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edward KAY, Marshall Garcia, Dennis Rivera, Eustace Jarrett, Sylvia Grant-Gutierrez, Carlton Yearwood and Angela Doyle, Betty Hughley, Katherine Abelson, Dalton Mayfield and Aida Garcia, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 25, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Reif, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Gladstein, Reif & Meginnis, Brooklyn, N.Y., James M. Altman, Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn & Berman, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Jules Bernstein, Washington, D.C. (Linda Lipsett, Bernstein & Lipsett, Washington, D.C., Terrell C. Evans, Mannan & Evans, Brooklyn, N.Y., Roy Barnes, Wendell Shepherd, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from the grant of an injunction concerning the use of a union's resources in a referendum arises out of a struggle for power between the President and Executive Council of an 80,000 member local union. It raises several issues. The threshold question turns on whether subject matter jurisdiction exists under either Section 102 of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act ("LMRDA"), 29 U.S.C. § 412 (1982), or Section 301...

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