HILL v. FLORIDA

No. 811.

325 U.S. 538 (1945)

HILL ET AL. v. FLORIDA EX REL. WATSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Joseph A. Padway and Herbert S. Thatcher for petitioners.

J. Tom Watson, Attorney General of Florida, and Howard S. Bailey, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Briefs were filed by Solicitor General Fahy, Messrs. Robert L. Stern, Alvin J. Rockwell, Miss Ruth Weyand and Mrs. Elizabeth W. Weston on behalf of the United States; Messrs. Arthur Garfield Hayes and Osmond K. Fraenkel on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Mr. Paul O'Dwyer on behalf of the Workers Defense League, as amici curiae, in support of petitioners.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The only question we find it necessary to decide in this case is whether a Florida statute1 regulating labor union activities has been applied to these petitioners in a manner which brings it into irreconcilable conflict with the collective bargaining regulations of the National Labor Relations Act. 49 Stat. 449. That Federal Act, we decided in Allen-Bradley Local v. Wisconsin...

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