Carter Coal Co. v. Human Rights Commission

"State blacklisting laws, enacted largely between 1887 and 1930, were among the first efforts to outlaw retaliatory refusals to hire. These statutes were enacted in about half of the states because employers, in an effort to quash labor organization, created and circulated lists of pro-union workers to prevent them from gaining employment. In reaction, states limited the employer’s right to hire and fire at will by prohibiting blacklisting.” Rothstein, Wrongful Refusal To Hire: Attacking the Other Half of the Employment-At-Will Rule, 24 Conn. L. Rev. 97, 110 (1991).

The principal issue in this…