Legal Opinion
United Steelworkers of America v. R. H. Bouligny, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 22, 1965No. 19PublishedCited by 264 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fortas
Respondent, a North Carolina corporation, brought this action in a North Carolina state court. It sought $200,000 in damages for defamation alleged to have occurred during the course of the United Steelworkers’ campaign to unionize respondent’s employees. The Steelworkers, an unincorporated labor union whose principal place of business purportedly is Pennsylvania, removed the case to a Federal District Court. The union asserted not only federal-question jurisdiction, but that for purposes of the diversity jurisdiction it was a citizen of Pennsylvania, although some of its members were North…
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