BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS ET AL.
v.
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued December 8-9, 1965.
Decided January 31, 1966.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James E. Youngdahl argued the cause for appellants in No. 69. With him on the briefs was Eugene F. Mooney. Jack L. Lessenberry argued the cause for appellants in No. 71. With him on the brief was Bruce Bennett, Attorney General of Arkansas.
Robert V. Light and Dennis G. Lyons argued the cause for appellees in both cases. With them on the brief were Thurman Arnold, W. J. Smith, H. H. Friday and R. W. Yost.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Bronson C. La Follette, Attorney General, and Beatrice Lampert, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Wisconsin; by John J. O'Connell, Attorney General, and Frank P. Hayes, James R. Cunningham and PaulCoughlin, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Washington; and by the following Attorneys General for their respective States: Arthur K. Bolton of Georgia, John J. Dillon of Indiana, Jack P. F. Gremillion of Louisiana, Forrest H. Anderson of Montana, Frank L. Farrar of South Dakota, and Waggoner Carr of Texas.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging affirmance, were filed by William P. Rogers, Robert M. Lane, Gerald E. Dwyer, Victor F. Condello, Jordan Jay Hillman, Joseph S. Gill and Woodrow L. Taylor for Associated Railways of Indiana et al., and by Francis M. Shea, Richard T. Conway, William H. Dempsey, Jr., Ralph J. Moore, Jr., James R. Wolfe and Charles I. Hopkins, Jr., for the National Railway Labor Conference.
Supreme Court of United States.
Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE BLACK, announced by MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN.
Appellees, a group of interstate railroads operating in Arkansas, brought this action in a United States District Court asking that court to declare two Arkansas statutes unconstitutional and to enjoin two Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys, appellants here, from enforcing or attempting to enforce the two state statutes. The railroad brotherhoods, also appellants here, were allowed to intervene...
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