WILMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS v. HOWELL


374 A.2d 832 (1977)

WILMINGTON FEDERATION OF TEACHERS and American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, et al., Defendants below, Appellants, v. Wendell HOWELL et al., Plaintiffs below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided June 1, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley W. Balick and Clifford B. Hearn, Jr., of Balick and Hearn, P.A., Wilmington, and Leonard M. Sagot and Thomas W. Jennings, of Teitelman, Sagot, Herring, Jennings & Luber, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel, for defendants below, appellants.

David S. Swayze, Former City Sol., Perry F. Goldlust, First Asst. City Sol., and Charles H. Toliver, IV, Asst. City Sol., Wilmington, for plaintiffs below, appellees.

Before HERRMANN, C. J., DUFFY and McNEILLY, JJ.


HERRMANN, Chief Justice:

In this case, we are called upon primarily to consider the effect of the "Sunshine Law" (29 Del.C. § 5109)1 in a teachers' strike situation. The defendant teachers' union and its officers were held to be in contempt of a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction issued by the Court of Chancery barring the strike. On appeal, they contend, inter...

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