Richard Weaver v. United Mine Workers of America, W. A. Boyle v. Richard Weaver

The action which gives rise to these consolidated interlocutory appeals 1 was instituted in 1969 by Joseph A. Yablon-ski and other members of the United Mine Workers of America 2 against its president, W. A. Boyle, and two other officers, George J. Titler and John Owens, for alleged violation of their fiduciary duties to the UMWA and its members. On two prior occasions we considered motions to disqualify UMWA’s counsel in the action and held that neither the UMWA’s retained counsel nor its house counsel could be permitted to represent its interests in the controversy because of their previous…