Wise Shoe Co. v. Lowenthal

Again we have the labor injunction restraining the defendants from picketing. The principles governing the granting of such injunctions and the limitations upon their terms have been repeatedly stated, yet we find, as do the lower courts, perplexities in application to ever changing circumstances and devices. In this case the plaintiff, operating a chain of shoe stores, opened a new one at 1597 Pitkin avenue in the borough of Brooklyn, New York city, on August 26, 1933. Nonunion labor was employed. The Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Union of Brooklyn was and is an unincorporated association, and…