COLE v. HALL

No. 140, Docket 29087.

339 F.2d 881 (1965)

John J. COLE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Paul HALL, individually and as President or Al Kerr, as Secretary-Treasurer, or Earl Shepard, as Vice-President, or Cal Tanner, as Executive Vice-President, of the Seafarers International Union of North America — Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton H. Hall, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert M. Saltzstein, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Jack L. Kroner and Howard Schulman, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and HAYS and MARSHALL, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Chief Judge:

Defendants — officers of the Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District of the Seafarers International Union of North America — appeal from an order enjoining them from excluding plaintiff, John J. Cole, from the rights of union membership. Cole was expelled for making derogatory remarks concerning the union officers in a resolution offered at a union meeting. He brought suit in the District Court for the Eastern District...

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