Coastal Cargo Co. v. General Longshore Workers Local Union No. 3000 International Longshoremen's Ass'n

SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendants, Longshoremen Local Union No. 3000 and others, have appealed from a judgment in favor of plaintiffs, Coastal Cargo Company, Inc. and Teamsters Local Union No. 270, issuing a preliminary injunction against defendants from picketing except within stringent limitations as to numbers and location of those participating in the picketing. The issue is whether the trial court complied with LSA-R.S. 23:844 in issuing the injunction.

Plaintiffs’ petition contains the following allegations: Coastal, a stevedoring company engaged in loading and unloading ships docked in the Port…