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McBRIDE v. ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND

No. 33, Docket 79-7295.

612 F.2d 34 (1979)

Lloyd McBRIDE, President and Frank McKee, Treasurer, for and on behalf of the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC and its entire membership, and Lynn Williams, Joseph Odorcich, Leon Lynch, Ernest Janak, Robert Clowers, Dick Eaglehouse, Robert Kelley, and Frank Anglin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND, New World Foundation, Field Foundation, Samuel Rubin Foundation, J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc., Ottinger Foundation, Community Funds, Inc., Youth Project, and Association For Union Democracy, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1979.

Certiorari Denied March 31, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Gottesman, Washington, D.C. (Robert M. Weinberg, David M. Silberman, and Bredhoff, Gottesman, Cohen & Weinberg, Washington, D.C., and Cohen, Weiss & Simon, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

William E. Jackson, New York City (Sharon W. Lindsay, and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees Rockefeller Family Fund and Community Funds, Inc.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Richard Wasserman, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Field Foundation and New World Foundation.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City (William Josephson, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Samuel Rubin Foundation, The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. and The Ottinger Foundation, Inc.

Gilbert, Segall & Young, New York City (Bernard J. Rosenthal, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Youth Project.

Stanley Engelstein, New York City, for defendant-appellee Association for Union Democracy, Inc.

Before MOORE, TIMBERS and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Appellants, officers and members of the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC, commenced an action on April 19, 1978 in the Southern District of New York against appellees for violations of Section 401(g) of Title IV of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, 29 U.S.C. § 481(g) (1976), and New York common law, alleging that appellees made illicit contributions to a group of union candidates during the 1977 nationwide union election...

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