McLaughlin v. American Postal Workers Union

FINAL ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF

SPELLMAN, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE comes before the Court upon the Defendant’s and the Plaintiff’s respective Motions for Summary Judgment. Both parties have stipulated that no issues of fact remain to be litigated. See Joint Pretrial Stipulation at 5. Therefore, the disposition of this cause turns solely on the resolution of a single issue of law, to wit, whether, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section 482(b), a union may bar a member from running for union office merely because the member previously has applied, without success, for a management…