BRENNAN v. LOCAL 5724, UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA

No. 73-1171.

489 F.2d 884 (1973)

Peter J. BRENNAN, Secretary of Labor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOCAL 5724, UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, and United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harlington Wood, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., William W. Milligan, U.S. Atty., Robert E. Kopp, Anthony J. Steinmeyer, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

George H. Cohen, Michael H. Gottesman, Bredhoff, Cushman, Gottesman & Cohen, Washington, D.C., on brief, for defendants-appellees; Bernard Kleiman, Chicago, Ill., Stewart R. Jaffy, Clayman, Jaffy & Taylor, Columbus, Ohio, of counsel.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and PECK and LIVELY, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

A United Steelworkers' rule provides that no member shall be eligible for election to a local union office unless he has attended at least one-half of the regular meetings of his local union during the previous 36 months. The issue presented on this appeal is whether this attendance requirement is a reasonable qualification uniformly imposed within the meaning of the Labor-Management Reporting &...

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