Court Opinion

ID: 9471411
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:31:45.86544+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:23.863548
License: Public Domain

KEITH, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. I am convinced after hearing oral arguments in this case that the Teamsters’ newsletter, “337”, for the months in question, does not contain excessive publicity for President Robert F. Holmes, Vice-President Lawrence Brennan and Richard Leebove. I therefore would vacate the preliminary injunction for the stay heretofore entered on October 6, 1983, and allow defendants-appellees to proceed with the distribution of all election materials. Our Court’s decision to grant the stay in this case will have a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of the officers of Local 337. I feel very strongly that courts should not interfere with the internal operations and politics of unions.