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NAT. ASS'N OF GOV. EMP. v. NAT. FEDER. OF FED. EMP.

No. 87-1158.

844 F.2d 216 (1988)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, and Maria Luisa A. Inocencio, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Sherman, Austin, Tex., Stewart W. Forbes, El Paso, Tex., Robert H. Goldman, Alan M. Cohen, Lowell, Mass., for plaintiff-appellant.

Bruce P. Heppen, Ronald P. McCluskey, El Paso, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before RUBIN, KING, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

"[Labor] representation campaigns are frequently characterized by bitter and extreme charges, countercharges, unfounded rumors, vituperations, personal accusations, misrepresentations and distortions."1 The certification contest between two unions from which this libel action arose was comparatively mild. The union seeking to supersede the incumbent bargaining agent did, however, publish a pamphlet stating...

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