Building and Construction Trades Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Afl-Cio Patrick Gillespie v. National Labor Relations Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Rufo’s statement as to a court’s ability to modify a decree is a rule of general applicability and not limited to institutional reform litigation
• declining to hold that “temporary compliance” is itself “sufficient to constitute the type of changed circumstances that warrant lifting of an injunction”
• declining to hold that “the mere passage of time” is itself “sufficient to constitute the type of changed circumstances that warrant lifting of an injunction”
• noting that a party deciding “not to picket at all” does not “show that [the party] has in fact learned how to picket without treading on the prohibitions against secondary boycott contained both in the law and the various negotiated consent decrees”
• “[T]he interest in finality of judgments may assume greater or lesser prominence according to the nature of the case … but should not be either deprecated or ignored.”
• “[T]he interest in finality of judgments may assume greater or lesser prominence according to the nature of the case and the private and public interests implicated, but should not be either deprecated or ignored.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).