Legal Opinion
Linn v. United Plant Guard Workers of America, Local 114
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 1966No. 45PublishedCited by 908 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Justice Clark
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The case before us presents the question whether, and to what extent, the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 61 Stat. 136, 29 U. S. C. § 141 et seq. (1964 ed.), bars the maintenance of a civil action for libel instituted under state law by an official of an employer subject to the Act, seeking damages for defamatory statements published during a union organizing campaign by the union and its officers. The District Court dismissed the complaint on the ground that the National Labor Relations Board had exclusive jurisdiction over the…
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