CROWLEY v. LOCAL NO. 82, FURNITURE & PIANO, ETC.

No. 81-1545.

679 F.2d 978 (1982)

Jerome CROWLEY, Anthony Coyne, Joseph Fahey, Robert Lunnin, James Hayes, Gerald Owens, John Lynch, Joseph Trask, Joseph Montagna, and Dennis Bates, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. LOCAL NO. 82, FURNITURE AND PIANO MOVING, FURNITURE STORE DRIVERS, HELPERS, WAREHOUSEMEN, AND PACKERS; Bart Griffiths, Secretary-Treasurer, Local No. 82; George Harris, President, Local No. 82; Phillip Piemontese, Chairman of the Election Committee of Local 82; and John Doe, James Doe and Jerome Doe, Members of the Election Committee of Local 82, Defendants-Appellants. Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary S. Witlen, Washington, D. C., with whom Kathryn Noonan, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants-appellants.

Kurt M. Pressman, Cambridge, Mass., with whom Mark D. Stern, Benjamin Hiller, and Goldstein, Pressman & Stern, Cambridge, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Susan M. Webman, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., with whom T. Timothy Ryan, Jr., Sol. of Labor, John F. Depenbrock, Associate Sol., and Joseph M. Woodward, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for The Secretary of Labor, amicus curiae.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Local No. 82, Furniture and Piano Moving, Furniture Store Drivers, Helpers, Warehousemen, and Packers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (the Local) and certain of its individual officers1 appeal the order of the district court issuing a preliminary injunction against them that principally requires the Local to conduct new elections for officer positions in the Local. The injunction was sought by several members...

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