United States Sixth Circuit

In suit against union and city defendants, alleging claims under the Labor Management Relations Act and 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the Norris-LaGuardia Act divested the district court of jurisdiction to enter a consent decree between plaintiff and city defendants, and the district court violated the Younger abstention doctrine; accordingly, consent decree vacated and case remanded to determine whether to bifurcate the claims for damages against the unions under the Section 1983 claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/07/2002
• Published 02/07/2002

Judges

• Before:  DAUGHTREY and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  COHN, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Weinberg, Philip Hostak, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, Mark A. Rock, Timothy J. Gallagher, Schwarswald, Rock & McNair, Cleveland, OH, for Petitioners in No. 00-3611.


• For Appellees:
  
• George E. Yund (argued and briefed), David C. Horn (briefed), Frost, Brown & Todd LLC, Cincinnati, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellee in Nos. 00-3609, 00-3610., Mark A. Rock (briefed), Timothy J. Gallagher (briefed), Schwarzwald, Rock & McNair, Cleveland, OH, for Defendants-Appellants in No. 00-3609., Richard P. Goddard (briefed), Maura L. Hughes (argued), Wendy E. Stark (briefed), Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, Cleveland, OH, Robert L. Konstam (briefed), City of Mansfield Law Director, Mansfield, OH, for Defendant-Appellee in Nos. 00-3609, 00-3610., Robert Weinberg (briefed), W. Gary Kohlman, Philip Hostak (argued), Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants in No. 00-3610., George E. Yund (argued), David C. Horn (briefed), Frost, Brown & Todd LLC, Cincinnati, OH, Richard P. Goddard, Maura L. Hughes (argued), Wendy E. Stark, Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP, CLeveland, OH, Robert L. Konstam, City of Mansfield Law Director, Mansfield, OH, for Respondents in No. 00-3611.