AUTOMOBILE WORKERS v. RUSSELL

No. 21.

356 U.S. 634 (1958)

INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AIRCRAFT AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA (UAW-CIO) ET AL. v. RUSSELL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. R. Goldthwaite, Jr. argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief were Harold A. Cranefield and Kurt L. Hanslowe.

Norman W. Harris argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue before us is whether a state court, in 1952, had jurisdiction to entertain an action by an employee, who worked in an industry affecting interstate commerce, against a union and its agent, for malicious interference with such employee's lawful occupation. In United Workers v. Laburnum Corp., 347 U.S. 656, 657, we held that Congress had not "given the National...

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