Price v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America

RULING AND ORDER

DORSEY, District Judge.

In the Ruling on Pending Motions dated May 31, 1989, this court ordered the parties to brief the retroactive effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Communications Workers of America v. Beck, 487 U.S. 735, 108 S.Ct. 2641, 101 L.Ed.2d 634 (1988), and the appropriateness of a remedy for pre-Beck violations. While retroactive application of judicial decisions is neither compelled nor prohibited by the Constitution, “the general rule is that Supreme Court decisions are given full retroactive application.” Barkman v. Wabash, Inc., 674 F.Supp. 623, 627…