NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY, Western Electric Company, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Long Lines Department, and Empire City Subway Company (Limited), Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Louis L. Levine, Industrial Commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor, New York State Department of Taxation & Finance, and James H. Tully, Jr., State Commissioner of Taxation & Finance, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued July 22, 1977.
Decided November 9, 1977.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Maria L. Marcus, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Nicholas G. Garaufis, Asst. Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.
David L. Benetar, New York City (George E. Ashley, William P. Witman, Stanley Schair, Mark H. Leeds, Aranow, Brodsky, Bohlinger, Benetar & Einhorn, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.
Doran, Colleran, O'Hara, Pollio & Dunne, Garden City, N. Y. (Richard L. O'Hara, Robert A. Kennedy, Garden City, N. Y., of counsel), for amicus curiae New York State AFL-CIO.
Richard H. Markowitz, Robert C. Cohen, Markowitz & Glanstein, New York City, for Local 1, International Union of Elevator Constructors, AFL-CIO, as amicus curiae.
Lawrence M. Cohen, Jeffrey S. Goldman, Lederer, Fox & Grove, Chicago, Ill., Thomas W. Misner, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., for amicus curiae Dow Chemical Co.
Frank J. Donner, Robert Z. Lewis, James G. Mauro, Jr., New York City, Sipser, Weinstock, Harper, Dorn & Leibowitz, New York City, Eisner, Levy, Steel & Bellman, New York City, Winn Newman, Washington, D. C., Cammer & Shapiro, New York City, Vladeck, Elias, Vladeck & Lewis, New York City, for amici curiae: District 65, Distributive Workers of America; International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO-CLC; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE); District 1199, National Union of Hospital & Health Care Employees, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO; District 3, International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America; District Council 1707, Community and Social Agency Employees Union, American Federation of State and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO; Furriers Joint Council of New York, AFL-CIO; Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO; Butcher District Council of New York, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO; International Brotherhood of Teamsters & Warehousemen, Brewery Delivery Employees Local # 46; Local 101, Utility Division, Transportation Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO; Local 140, Bedding, Curtain and Drapery Workers Union, United Furniture Workers of America, AFL-CIO; Local 259, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; Shopmen's Local 455, International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, AFL-CIO; Professional and Administrative Staff Association, Museum of Modern Art; United Store Workers Union, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO; Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, New York, New York; Legal Services Staff Association, New York, New York; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Committee, New York, New York; United Optical Workers Union, Local 408, International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, AFL-CIO; Architectural and Engineering Guild Local 66, American Federation of Technical Employees, AFL-CIO.
Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle, Rochester, N. Y. (Eugene D. Ulterino, Gail A. Kreusch, Rochester, N. Y., of counsel), for amici curiae in support of affirmance.
Before MESKILL, Circuit Judge, BRYAN and STEWART, District Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
New York's Unemployment Insurance Law permits employees who are involved in a "strike, lockout, or other industrial controversy" to collect unemployment compensation after a waiting period of eight weeks. N.Y.Lab.Law §§ 590.9, 592.1 (McKinney 1977). The district court held this statute invalid under the supremacy clause, U.S.Const. art. VI, cl. 2, finding that it alters the balance in the collective bargaining relationship and therefore...
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