U.S. v. DISTRICT COUNCIL OF NEW YORK CITY

No. 90 Civ. 5722(CSH).

409 F.Supp.2d 439 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. DISTRICT COUNCIL OF NEW YORK CITY and Vicinity of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

January 12, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin H. Torrance, Edward Scarvalone, United States Attorneys for the Southern District of New York, Lisa R. Zornberg, U.S. Attorney's Office, SDNY, Sara L. Chenetz, Freeman Forrest & Chenetz LLP, New York City, for Plaintiff.

Flora Edwards, Dublirer, Haydon, Straci & Victor, James Wasserman, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., New York City, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, Senior District Judge.

In this civil RICO action against a labor organization, the government moves for an order holding the organization and its president in contempt of a consent decree previously entered in the case. The question presented is whether collective bargaining agreements entered into by the labor organization with employers violated the consent decree.

I. BACKGROUND

A.

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