Kenneth j.yablonski and Joseph A. Yablonski v. United Mine Workers of America

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

In the course of the bitterly, contested 1969 election for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, one of the candidates, the late Joseph A. Yablonski, instituted in the District Court four separate lawsuits under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. 29 U.S.C. §§ 401ff. Mr. Yablonski did not live to see those cases through to final conclusion since he, together with his wife and daughter, was murdered shortly after the election. 1 Significant and substantial preliminary relief was, however, forthcoming in, or by reason of, those…