NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS v. SOMBROTTO

No. 1091, Docket 71-1647.

449 F.2d 915 (1971)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS, AFL-CIO, and Bernard R. Murphy, as National Trustee of New York Letter Carriers' Branch 36, National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Vincent R. SOMBROTTO, etc., New York Letter Carriers' Branch 36, National Association of Letter Carriers, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mozart G. Ratner, Washington, D. C. (Cohen, Weiss and Simon, New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Howard E. Goldfluss, New York City (Morris Weissberg, New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before FRIENDLY, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal by the National Association of Letter Carriers ("NALC") from an order of Judge Cannella in the District Court for the Southern District of New York, denying NALC's application for a preliminary injunction to enforce a trusteeship it had sought to impose upon one of its locals. The rapid-fire chronology of events in this case was as follows:

Shortly before June 25, 1971, Branch 36, a NALC local, and its president, Vincent...

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