DONOVAN v. ILLINOIS ED. ASS'N

No. 81-1435.

667 F.2d 638 (1982)

Raymond DONOVAN, Secretary of Labor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ILLINOIS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Hoyle, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Irving M. Friedman, Katz, Friedman, Schur & Eagle, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and SPRECHER and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 25, 1982.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The Illinois Education Association is a union of some 50,000 public-school teachers in Illinois. This case involves a challenge under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, 29 U.S.C. § 401 et seq., to racial and ethnic restrictions in the Association's by-laws governing the election of officers.

The facts are not in dispute. The governance...

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