MACEIRA v. PAGAN

No. 80-1622.

649 F.2d 8 (1981)

Efrain MACEIRA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Luis Enrique PAGAN et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Boal, Detroit, Mich., with whom Alejandro Torres Rivera, San Juan, P. R., and Torres & Velaz, Rio Piedras, P. R., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Agustin Collazo Mojica, Rio Piedras, P. R., with whom Primitivo Pagan Colon, Santurce, P. R., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

James Reif, and Gladstein, Reif & Seigel, Brooklyn, N. Y., on brief, for Richard Santiago, et al., amici curiae.

Before CAMPBELL, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, members of Local 901 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, sued the Local and its Secretary-Treasurer Luis Pagan. They claimed that, in removing plaintiff Efrain Maceira from his position as a union steward, Pagan and the Local violated their rights to free expression protected by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 ("LMRDA"), popularly known as the Landrum-Griffin Act, 29 U.S.C. § 411(a)(2). They...

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