District 28, United Mine Workers of America, Inc. v. Wellmore Coal Corporation

MERHIGE, District Judge.

The appellant labor organizations brought suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against three coal companies and a railroad seeking declaratory, injunctive, and monetary relief as a result of the appellees obtaining a number of temporary injunctions in state court resulting in the restriction of appellants’ picketing activity. The district court granted appellees’ motion to dismiss on the ground that neither the actions of the state courts that issued the injunctions, nor the actions of the appellees in seeking same, impermissibly restricted appellees’ First Amendment…