Legal Opinion
Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union v. Sinclair Oil Corp.
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided December 22, 1987No. 86-239PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDINE, Justice.
The stakes were high. The union, OCAW, and Sinclair Oil Corporation were locked in a contest for votes of Sinclair employees in a union decertification election. As expected, each party was commendably zealous in free and open debate presenting their respective positions. A letter, critical of the union and its officers, written by a former employee of OCAW, was circulated among Sinclair employees. OCAW lost the election. An action for damages, claimed to result from defamation by the letter, was brought against Earl Holding and other officers and representatives of Sinclair.…
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