UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 15-2499
INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 333; RIKER J. MCKENZIE, JR.; EZEKIEL GIVENS; AVON ALLISON; DERRICK ARTER; JAMES ANDERSON; RASUL A. AQUIL; ANDRE BENNETT; STANLEY BERRY; ALBERT JASON BOYD; GARY D. BREWINGTON; PAUL J. BRISCOE; KENNARD BROWN; QUANTA BROWN; MOAB BROWN-BEY; GARY KENNETH BURRELL; SHERMAN CANNON; JEROME CARTER; STACEY M. CHASE; CHRISTOPHER COLBERT; CARYN J. CONYERS; ANTIONE CRAWFORD; CULMER BARRY, JR.; RICHARD DANIEL; PRENTICE DENNIS; CHRISTOPHER DUNNOCK; ERIC DUVALL, SR.; ERIC DUVALL, JR.; JOHN D. EATON; KEITH FERGUSON; DAMON FLEARY, SR.; ERIKA GAINES; TODD A. GALLOWAY; NATHAN GILMER; SCOTT L. GIVENS; AMANDA GRAVES; JOSEPH B. GREEN, JR.; TEION HAIRSTON; TAAVON HALL; KEASHA HANNAH; JOSEPH A. HARDEN, IV; DIANE HIBLER; DOMENIQUE HOLDEN; SHAWN JACKSON; CARL LEE JOHNSON, JR.; CHARLES JOHNSON; MARIO JOHNSON, JR.; MAURICE JOHNSON; CALVIN E. JONES; GEORGE JONES; WAYNE JONES; PARKER RAY KEY; STEVEN KNIGHT; MARCEL LARKINS; CHARMAINE V. LITTLE; DERICK LITTLE; EUGENE N. LITTLE; TERRY LONG; RODNEY K. MARTIN; JAMES LAMONT MCNAIR; STEVEN B. MILLER, SR.; WALTER C. MOORE; ANWAR MUHAMMAD; DANA MUNDELL; GREGORY JEROME MURRAY; KEVIN MYRICK; CHARLES NELSON, JR.; NATHANIEL L. PRYOR, JR.; TYRONE E. QUEEN, SR.; EMANUEL Q. REED; ALISHA RHODES; MARCUS RICHARDSON; MAURICE SHERROD; VON A. SIMON; EVERETT J. SMITH; RANDOLPH SMITH; ANDREW SMITHSON, SR.; BOBBY SYDNOR; KELLY TOREZ TALBERT; ALLEN R. TAYLOR; DELVIN THOMPSON; KEVIN TUCKER; HAYWARD WALLACE; PHILLIP WEST; FREDERICK WHITE; DANTE WILLIAMS; HARRISON WILLIAMS; REGINALD JEROME WILSON; RANDY WRIGHT; JOSEPH EVANS; DARYL ESTEP; ERIC RIDGEWAY; JAMAL EVANS; LAMONT COGER; ALPHONSO WATSON; MAURQUISE MOODY; MAURICE MOODY; JARMALL MCKEEVER; AARON BARNETT; SEMAJ WASHINGTON; RONALD MCBRIDE,
Plaintiffs - Appellants, v.
INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION, AFL-CIO; HAROLD J. DAGGETT; BENNY HOLLAND, JR.; STEPHEN KNOTT; GERALD OWENS; JOHN D. BAKER; STEAMSHIP TRADE ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE, INCORPORATED,
Defendants - Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. Catherine C. Blake, Chief District Judge. (1:15-cv-00813-CCB)
Argued: January 24, 2017 Decided: May 2, 2017
Before GREGORY, Chief Judge, KING, Circuit Judge, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion.
ARGUED: Bruce M. Luchansky, LUCHANSKY LAW, Towson, Maryland, for Appellants. Kevin J. Marrinan, MARRINAN & MAZZOLA MARDON P.C., New York, New York; Michael J. Collins, THE LAW OFFICES OF MICHAEL J. COLLINS PC, Highland, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: John P. Sheridan, MARRINAN & MAZZOLA MARDON P.C., New York, New York, for Appellees International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, Harold J. Daggett, Benny Holland, Jr., Stephen Knott, Gerald Owens, and John D. Baker.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
Appellants are members of, and applicants for admission to, the Baltimore-based
International Longshoremen's Association, Local 333 ("the Union"). Due in part to the
Union's alleged noncompliance with a membership bylaw, the Union's parent
organization, the International Longshoremen Association, AFL-CIO ("ILA"), denied the
applicants' admission to the Union and concomitantly imposed a trusteeship intended to
restore the Union's democratic procedures. Appellants filed suit, alleging that these
actions violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure