FULTON LODGE NO. 2 OF INT. ASS'N OF MACH. & AERO. WKRS. v. NIX

No. 24571.

415 F.2d 212 (1969)

FULTON LODGE NO. 2 OF the INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS, AFL-CIO, Appellants, v. Franklin NIX, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 28, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. R. Goldthwaite, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., James L. Highsaw, Jr., Edward J. Hickey, Jr., William J. Hickey, Washington, D. C., Adair, Goldthwaite, Stanford, Daniel & Horn, Atlanta, Ga., Plato E. Papps, Chief Counsel, Int. Ass'n of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO, Washington, D. C., Mulholland, Hickey & Lyman, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for appellants.

William G. McRae, Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This is an internal union free speech case governed by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.1 The district court found that Appellee Nix was expelled from membership for the exercise of protected speech and ordered Fulton Lodge No. 2 and its international body, to reinstate Nix to full membership in the union and to refrain from further interference with his free speech rights. Nix v. Fulton...

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