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SMITHFIELD FOODS v. COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERN.

Civil Action No. 3:07cv641.

593 F.Supp.2d 840 (2008)

SMITHFIELD FOODS, INC. and Smithfield Packaging Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

October 14, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Branch Robertson, Michael Randolph Shebelskie, David Alan Rudlin, Kurt George Larkin, Lewis Franklin Powell, III, Shelley Low Spalding, Thomas Glascock Slater, Jr., Hunton & Williams LLP, Richmond, VA, George Robert Blakey, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN, James Phillip Naughton, Hunton & Williams LLP, Norfolk, VA, Walter Christopher Arbery, Hunton & Williams LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs.

Andrew Dean Roth, Charlotte Jennifer Garden, Matthew Hirsch Clash-Drexler, Ramya Ravindran, Robert William Alexander, Robert Mark Weinberg, W. Gary Kohlman, Bredhoff & Kaiser PLLC, Carey Robert Butsavage, Butsavage & Assoc. PC, Patrick Joseph Szymanski, Change To Win, Joshua Aaron Levy, Stein Robert Lawrence Bredhoff, Robert Francis Muse, Stein Mitchell & Mezines, Washington, DC, Nichole Buck Vanderslice, Paul Wilbur Jacobs, II, Rowland Braxton Hill, IV, Christian & Barton LLP, Richmond, VA, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROBERT E. PAYNE, Senior District Judge.

The Plaintiffs ("Smithfield") have filed three "Motions for Judgment on the Pleadings" which seek to strike four of the Defendants' asserted affirmative defenses. In the "Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings on Defendants' First Amendment Affirmative Defenses" (Docket No. 90), Smithfield contends that the First Amendment does not protect extortionate...

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