Varnado v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. “In consonance with other courts, this court has repeatedly held that, at common law, an unincorporated association is not suable in its own name, consequently this association is not so suable, unless that rule has been changed by statutes, either expressly or by necessary implication. In many, if not all, respects this brotherhood is an association of the kind and character of the United Mine Workers of America, which was held suable in its own name by the Supreme Court of the United States in United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U.S. 344 , 42 S.Ct. 570 , 66 L.Ed. 975 , 27 A.L.R. 762 , for the reason that federal statutes which recognize the legal entity of such associations, grant them rights, and impose liabilities on them, impliedly authorize them to sue and be sued in their association names.”

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