Atlantic Coast Line Co v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

• Court: U.S. Supreme Court
• Writing for the Court: Mr. Justice BLACK
• Citation: Atlantic Coast Line Co v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 396 U.S. 1201, 90 S.Ct. 9, 24 L.Ed.2d 23 (1969)
• Decision Date: 01 October 1969
• Parties: ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS et al. No. ___

396 U.S. 1201

90 S.Ct. 9

24 L.Ed.2d 23

ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

v BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS et al.

No. ___.

Supreme Court of the United States

October Term, 1969.

July 16, 1969

Dennis G. Lyons, Frank X. Friedmann, Jr., David M. Foster, John W. Weldon, and John S. Cox, on the application.

Allan Milledge and Richard L. Horn, in opposition.

Mr. Justice BLACK, Circuit Justice.

This is an application presented to me by the railroad to stay enforcement of an injunction issued by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against the enforcement of a state court injunction restraining the union from picketing around the Moncrief Yard in Florida, a classification yard owned by the Seaboard Coast Line, the successor company to the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The picketing is being carried on because of a strike against the Florida East Coast Railway by its employees; there is no dispute between the Seaboard Coast Line or the Atlantic Coast Line and their employees. The union wishes to picket the Moncrief Yard, however, because many of the Florida East Coast cars are switched into it in order to carry on that railroad's business.

At the last Term of this Court we had before us a question involving the picketing of the Jacksonville Terminal Company at Jacksonville, Florida, owned and operated by the Florida East Coast, Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line, and Southern railroads. There an injunction was granted in the Florida state courts to restrain the union from picketing the entire terminal. This Court in a 4-to-3 opinion decided that the picketing was protected by federal law and therefore could not be enjoined by Florida. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Jacksonville Terminal Co., 394 U.S. 369, 89 S.Ct. 1109, 22 L.Ed.2d 344 (1969). The union...