National Labor Relations Board v. Roywood Corp.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge.

This is an action by the National Labor Relations Board to have the federal courts remove a state court injunction that the Board argues interferes with its jurisdiction. The case involves a background of strikes, picketing and boycotts with which the Board was intimately concerned. It arises because the employer, dissatisfied with the relief it received under federal law, petitioned the state court for an injunction against “false and defamatory” material that the union was distributing in its efforts to organize primary and secondary boycotts. The state court…