Kaplan's Fruit & Produce Co. v. Superior Court

Opinion

TOBRINER, Acting C. J.

In an agricultural labor dispute, petitioner Kaplan’s Fruit & Produce Company, Inc. (Kaplan’s) sought a preliminary injunction to restrain pickets of real party in interest United Farm Workers of America (Union) from obstructing ingress and egress to Kaplan’s wholesale facility in Los Angeles.1 The superior court found “mass picketing which interferes with ingress and egress,” but ruled that lacking evidence of violence or threat of violence it had no jurisdiction to grant injunctive relief. Kaplan’s filed the instant petition for mandate to compel the superior…