UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO v. BISHOP

No. 78-1670.

598 F.2d 408 (1979)

UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, an Unincorporated Association, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ralph C. BISHOP, United States Marshal, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 6, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome A. Cooper, Birmingham, Ala., Michael H. Gottesman, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. R. Brooks, U. S. Atty., Elizabeth E. Todd, Asst. U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for Ralph C. Bishop.

Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal, Sydney F. Frazier, Jr., William F. Gardner, Birmingham, Ala., for Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.

Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne, Williams & Ward (court-appointed), Harold A. Bowron, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for Louisiana Power & Light Co.

Before MORGAN, RONEY and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


RONEY, Circuit Judge:

The central question in this case is whether the Norris-LaGuardia Act deprives a district court of jurisdiction to enter, under the facts of this case, an injunction which required a strike-bound steel fabricating plant to give up material that had been delivered to it for fabrication, work that could not go forward because of the strike. We hold that the federal court lacked such jurisdiction.

The facts are simple, the procedure complex...

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