O'ROURKE v. WATERFRONT COMMISSION


118 F.Supp. 236 (1954)

O'ROURKE et al. v. WATERFRONT COMMISSION OF NEW YORK HARBOR et al.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Lowenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs, Jacob W. Friedman, New York City, of counsel.

Lawrence E. Walsh, General Counsel to Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, New York City, for defendants, Whitman Knapp, David Simon, Arthur Brooks, New York City, of counsel.


WEINFELD, District Judge.

This action is another attack upon the Constitutionality of the Waterfront Commission Act.1 The particular section of the law challenged by these plaintiffs is Article V of the Act, which requires that pier superintendents and hiring agents who respectively supervise and select the longshoremen for hire must be licensed by the Waterfront Commission. The article further...

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