Trbovich v. United Mine Workers

Trbovich v. United Mine Workers
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 18, 1971 Decided January 17, 1972
Full case name	Trbovich v. United Mine Workers, et al.
Citations	404 U.S. 528 (more) 92 S. Ct. 630; 30 L. Ed. 2d 686; 15 Fed. R. Serv. 2d (Callaghan) 1083; 79 L.R.R.M. 2193
Prior history	On appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Holding
The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 does not bar union members from intervening in enforcement proceedings brought by the United States Department of Labor in enforcement proceedings under the Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan, Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Marshall, joined by Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Blackmun
Concur/dissent	Douglas
Rehnquist, Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Trbovich v. United Mine Workers, 404 U.S. 528 (1972), is a 6–1 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 gave union members the right to intervene in enforcement proceedings brought by the United States Department of Labor in enforcement proceedings under the Act.^[1]

Footnotes

1. Goldberg, Michael J. "Present at the Creation: Clyde Summers and the Field of Union Democracy Law." Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. 2010, p. 144-146.