AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA ET AL.
v.
WITTSTEIN ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 16, 1964.
Decided December 7, 1964.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Henry Kaiser argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief were Eugene Gressman, George Kaufmann, David I. Ashe and Jerome H. Adler.
Godfrey P. Schmidt argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Solicitor General Cox for the United States, and by J. Albert Woll, Robert C. Mayer, Theodore J. St. Antoine and Thomas E. Harris for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.
The issue presented in these suits is whether § 101 (a) (3) of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 19591 providing that the dues of an international union "shall not be increased . . . except . . . by majority vote of the delegates voting at a regular convention" prohibits the vote of delegates at a national convention...
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