United States Second Circuit

An injunction, prohibiting a union from publicly implicating an opera in a labor dispute that the company claimed involved only the union and the company's food service provider, is impermissibly vague where it fails to provide the union with adequate notice of what conduct is being enjoined.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2002
• Published 07/31/2002

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge:, Before WALKER, Chief Judge, LEVAL and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur Eisenberg, Christopher Dunn, New York, NY, on the brief, for amicus curiae New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation., Jamin B. Raskin, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., Hillary Richard, Laurie Edelstein Brune & Richard, New York, NY, on the brief, for amici curiae Global Exchange, United Students Against Sweatshops and Harvard Progressive Student Labor Movement.


• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah E. Lans, Morrison Cohen Singer & Weinstein, New York, NY, (Vincent J. Pentima, Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, Philadelphia, PA, and Sharon E. Grubin, General Counsel, Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY, on the brief) for Plaintiff-Appellee., Michael Anderson, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, San Francisco, California (Joseph J. Lynett, Herrick, Feinstein, New York, NY, on the brief) for Defendants-Appellants.