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· 10/30/1991

Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons International Ass'n v. Benjamin

Citations

  • 776 F. Supp. 1360
  • 138 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2856
  • 1991 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16221
  • 1991 WL 230190

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  • agreeing with Traweek that the union could not sue under § 501(b) but finding § 501(a) “create[d] a cause of action in favor of labor organizations against officials who breach their duties to the organization”
  • “A suit by a union for breach of the duty created in its favor by a federal law [under section 501(a
  • “Properly read, § 501(a) creates a cause of action in favor of labor organization against officials who breach their duties to the organization”
  • \ Section 501(b) is properly read as both a cause of action on behalf of individual members and limiting federal court jurisdiction over suits by individual members\

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Judges: Miller

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