Court Opinion

ID: 9479045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:06:28.612635+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:46:47.396273
License: Public Domain

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring.
The court’s legal analysis and reasoning seems impeccable, and I agree with it, but feel, in this particular case, that its final point should be first. The bare fact is that the union, and plaintiffs as assenting members, knowingly determined to embark on an illegal enterprise, and employed defendants to advise how, to put it bluntly, they could best get away with it. Now they wish to be paid because the operation failed. Cutting away the trappings and formalistic rationalizing, can a bank robber who is apprehended sue the driver of the getaway car? Naturally defendants do not defend by saying that their advice was, in itself, unlawful, but even if defendants fell short of being aiders and abettors, plaintiffs are in no position to seek judicial assistance. I am surprised that they should expect it.