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EXECUTIVE BD. OF TRANSPORT v. TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA

Civil Action No. 02-6633.

236 F.Supp.2d 480 (2002)

The EXECUTIVE BOARD OF TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF PHILADELPHIA, LOCAL 234; Thomas Casey; Joseph Coccio; Brian Pollitt; Karl Turner; Robert O'Connor; Abe Tisdale; Willie Beckton; Charles Clancy; Robert D'Alfonso; Members of Transport Workers Union of Philadelphia, Local 234, Plaintiffs, v. TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO; Nellie (Jean) Alexander, individually and as President of Transport Workers Union, Local 234, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

December 19, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Bodner, Kaufman Coren & Ress PC, Philadelphia, PA, Jay H. Dahlke, Brodie & Rubinsky, Philadelphia, PA, for Plaintiffs.

Gail Lopez-Henriquez, Freedman & Lorry PC, Philadelphia, PA, Joseph J. Vitale, Cohen Weiss & Simon LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant TWU.

Jay H. Dahlke, Michael Brodie, Brodie & Rubinsky, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant Alexander.

OPINION

BAYLSON, District Judge.

"The very essence of democratic government consists in the absolute sovereignty of the majority...."1 When Alexis de Tocqueville wrote these words in the middle of the nineteenth century, there were, of course, no labor unions. De Tocqueville was relating his perceptive observations of American society in general, and the methodology by which Americans selected their government in particular...

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