Willie Lee Gordon v. Laborers' International Union of North America, Marcelus Hodge, the Associated General Contractors of America, Inc., Oklahoma Chapter-Buildersdivision v. Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 612, Defendant,laborers' International Union of North America, Intervenor-Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 133 · 1974
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Benda v. Grand Lodge of the International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (1978), Stelling v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 1547 (1978)
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Calhoon v. Harvey · American Federation of Musicians v. Wittstein · Parks v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Navarro v. Gannon · Don Vestal v. James R. Hoffa, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Etc. v. Don Vestal
Most-quoted passages
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““We find ourselves in an anomalous situation. Appeals have been taken to both TECA and the Tenth Circuit from the same district court judgment. Both appeals deal with the same subject, the validity of the March 13 contract. In TECA the question was compliance with the economic Stabilization Act. In the Tenth Circuit the question is the authority of Local 612 to make the contract in violation of the rules and policies of the parent union. The Tenth Circuit situation is complicated by the fact that the contractors have not appeared and the record is so confusing that we are unable to say whether Local 612 is before us. Although we have grave doubt as to the validity of the contract in the circumstances shown by the record before us, we are reluctant to decide the issue. “A strange situation exists when two different appellate courts are reviewing the same district court judgment Apparently there has been no effort to obtain certiorari review of the TECA action and its decision is the law of the case. An intolerable situation would result if we came out with a different disposition than did TECA.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“correcting corruption or financial malpractice, assuring the performance of collective bargaining agreements or other duties of a bargaining representative, restoring democratic procedures, or otherwise carrying out the legitimate objects of such labor organization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We believe that good judicial administration mandates that we avoid any sem-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.