DOWD v. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASS'N, AFL-CIO

No. 91-3908.

975 F.2d 779 (1992)

Francis E. DOWD, Regional Director of Region 12 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION, AFL-CIO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest L. Mathews, Jr., Herzl S. Eisenstadt, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

J. David Richeson, James G. Brown, Richeson & Brown, Orlando, Fla., for amicus curiae Coastal Stevedoring Co.

Ellen A. Farrell, Laura Goodman, NLRB, Washington, D.C., Margaret Diaz, NLRB, Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Paul M. Heylman, Robert L. Duston, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Canaveral Stevedoring, Inc. and the Canaveral Port Authority.

Before BIRCH, Circuit Judge, JOHNSON, and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

In this case we must decide whether an American labor union which induces a foreign union to pressure foreign importers engaged in commerce, with the purpose and effect of establishing a secondary boycott in the United States, commits a violation of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. (1988) ("NLRA"). Finding that the Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") had articulated a substantial...

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