Lincoln Federal Labor Union v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting the “notion” of a fundamental “right to pursue a legitimate business”
• state may enforce open-shop law, even though union asserted that closed shop was indispensable to right of self-organization
• state may enforce open-shop law, even though union asserted that closed shop was indispensable to right of self-organization
• state enforcement of open-shop law does not abridge assoeiational rights of unions or their' members despite claim that closed shop is indispensable to the right of self-organization
• “[S]tates have power to legislate against what are found to be injurious practices in their internal commercial and business affairs, so long as their laws do not run afoul of some specific federal constitutional prohibition, or of some valid federal law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).