State Ex Rel. United Mine Workers of America, Local Union 1938 v. Waters

STARCHER, Justice:

This is a writ of prohibition in which the petitioners, a labor union local and thirteen of its members, seek to prohibit the respondent circuit judge from exercising jurisdiction in a case arising out of a labor dispute.

In the underlying case, the respondent judge issued a preliminary injunction restraining the petitioners’ “picket-line” conduct at the request of the respondent coal company without any notice to the petitioners. Subsequently the judge entered a default judgment against the petitioners, making the injunction permanent and adjudging the petitioners liable for…