Longshoremen v. Allied Int'l, Inc.

Longshoremen v. Allied Int'l, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 18, 1982
Decided April 20, 1982
Full case nameInternational Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO v. Allied International, Inc.
Citations456 U.S. 212 (more)
102 S.Ct. 1656; 72 L. Ed. 2d 21
ArgumentOral argument
Opinion announcementOpinion announcement
Case history
PriorAllied Int'l v. Int'l Longshoremen's Ass'n, 492 F. Supp. 334 (D. Mass. 1980); reversed, 640 F.2d 1368 (1st Cir. 1981); cert. granted, 454 U.S. 814 (1981).
Holding
That the Longshoremen's Association by refusing to unload Soviet cargo in the United States had undertaken an unfair labor practice as defined by § 8(b) (4)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White
Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
MajorityPowell, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
National Labor Relations Act

International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO v. Allied International, Inc., 456 U.S. 212 (1982), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that a trade union that refused to unload cargo from the Soviet Union in protest against the invasion of Afghanistan had engaged in a secondary boycott, an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act.[1]

  1. ^ Longshoremen v. Allied Int'l, Inc., 456 U.S. 212 (1982).