Legal Opinion
Edna Howard v. Herby Weathers, Jr. And American Postal Workers Union, Chicago Local
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 17, 1998No. 97-1903PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Edna Howard, a member of the Chicago local of the postal workers’ union, sued the union and its president claiming that they had denied her an equal right to vote at a meeting of the union, in violation of her voting and free speech rights under sections 101(a)(1) and (2) of the Landrum-Griffin Act, 29 U.S.C. § 411(a)(1), (2), and also in violation of the union’s constitution. 29 U.S.C. § 185. The district judge entered judgment for the defendants after a bench trial. Section 101(a)(1) makes the right to vote conferred by the section “subject to reasonable rules and…
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