WHITE, MAYOR OF BOSTON, ET AL.
v.
MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL OF CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYERS, INC., ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 1, 1982.
Decided February 28, 1983.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Laurence H. Tribe argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Kurt M. Pressman, Mark D. Stern, and Harold J. Carroll.
Paul J. Kingston argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.*
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by J. Albert Woll, Laurence J. Cohen, Laurence Gold, and George Kaufmann for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations et al.; and by Stephen A. Bokat for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Wayne S. Henderson and Robert E. Dickinson filed a brief for the New England Legal Foundation et al. as amici curiae.
Supreme Court of United States.
JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.
In 1979 the Mayor of Boston, Mass., issued an executive order1 which required that all construction projects funded in whole or in part by city funds, or funds which the city had the authority to administer, should be performed by a work force consisting of at least half bona fide residents of Boston.2 The Supreme...
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