Legal Opinion
Intercity Maintenance Co. v. Local 254, Service Employees International Union
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 2, 2001No. 00-1522PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case stems from a labor dispute in which local union officials used heavy-handed tactics in an attempt to unionize a company. Appellant Intercity Maintenance Company (Intercity), a non-union janitorial service, sued the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), its local affiliate (Local 254), and two of the affiliate’s officers, Victor Lima and Donald Coleman, for unlawful secondary activity in violation of § 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), 29 U.S.C. § 187, and a variety of state tort claims, two of them alleging defamation. Summary…
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