Legal Opinion
United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 28, 1966No. 243PublishedCited by 13,943 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Respondent Paul Gibbs was awarded compensatory and punitive damages in this action against petitioner United Mine Workers of America (UMW) for alleged violations of § 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 158, as amended,1 and of the common law of *718Tennessee. The case grew out of the rivalry between the United Mine Workers and the Southern Labor Union over representation of workers in the southern Appalachian coal fields. Tennessee Consolidated Coal Company, not a party here, laid off 100 miners of the UMW’s Local 5881 when it closed one of its mines in southern Tennessee…
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