primary picketing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 394 U.S. 369 - Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · 1969Most cited · 1,255 citing opinions
Protected primary picketing 'has characteristically been aimed at all those approaching the situs whose mission is selling, delivering or otherwise contributing to the operations which the strike is endeavoring to halt,' including other employers and their employees.
How often courts cite the cases defining “primary picketing”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “primary picketing” — 1,500 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1964–1969
- ORIGINAL
Picketing has traditionally been a major weapon to implement the goals of a strike and has characteristically been aimed at all those approaching the situs whose mission is selling, delivering or otherwise contributing to the operations which the strike is endeavoring to halt.