Prospect Heights Hospital, Inc. v. Davis

The defendant union picketed the plaintiff, a charitable hospital, for an hour and a quarter to protest the firing by the hospital of four of its nonprofessional workers who were members of the union. The hospital seeks to enjoin the union from such picketing whilst the union requests that the complaint be dismissed for insufficiency of pleading.

The hospital does allege threats of a strike, denied by the union, but in seeking a restraining order, relies heavily on what it conceives to be a legal bar against picketing under a threat of strike against a charitable hospital. The union, on the…