Legal Opinion
Charles Chathas v. Local 134 Ibew, Unified Social Club, and Mike Fitzgerald
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 2000No. 99-4314PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a tangle of jurisdictional, equitable, and labor-law issues. The plaintiffs are members of a local of the electricians union who are on the outs with the local’s current business manager (that is, president), Mike Fitzgerald. They brought this suit under section 302 of the Taft-Hartley Act, 29 U.S.C. § 186, which forbids union officers to solicit employer contributions, against the local, Fitzgerald, and the “Unified Social Club,” a social organization of members of the local. The suit charges that Fitzgerald solicited and received tens of thousands…
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