Legal Opinion
BE&K Construction Co. v. Will & Grundy Counties Building Trades Council
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 18, 1998No. Nos. 97-2720, 97-2732PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
BE&K Construction Company sued Will & Grundy Counties Building Trades Council (“Trades Council”) AFL-CIO, and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 (“Local 150”) under Section 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 187 (“LMRA”), alleging that the defendants illegally threatened a secondary picket and that these threats caused BE&K to lose construction jobs. A jury returned a verdict in favor of BE&K, awarding it $544,000. The defendants appeal arguing that (1) evi-dentiary and instruction errors resulted in an unfair trial; (2) the evidence…
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