HANSEN v. GUYETTE

Nos. Civ. 3-86-437, Civ. 3-86-0490.

636 F.Supp. 907 (1986)

Joseph T. HANSEN, Trustee of Local Union P-9 United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO & CLC, Plaintiffs, v. James V. GUYETTE, Suspended President of Local Union P-9, Lynn Houston, Floyd Lenoch, Peter Winkels, John Weis, Carl Pontius, Kathryn Buck, Jim Retterath, Suspended Executive Board Members of Local P-9, Defendants. LOCAL P-9, UFCW, a labor organization and unincorporated association, James Guyette, Lynn Huston, Kathryn Buck, Peter Winkels, James Retterath, John Weis, Floyd Lenoch, and Carl Pontius, in their individual and official capacities as members of the Executive Board of Local P-9, and on behalf of 975 striking members of Local P-9, Plaintiffs, v. William H. WYNN, Jay H. Foreman, Jerry Menapace, William Olwell, Alan Lee, Lewie Anderson, Joseph Hansen, John Mancouso, and Allen Zack, in their individual and official capacities; and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, a labor organization and unincorporated association, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.

June 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Jensen, Peterson, Bell, Converse & Jensen, St. Paul, Minn., (Harry Huge, Gary K. Harris, James E. Pfander, Rogovin, Huge and Lenzner, George R. Murphy, Robert E. Funk, Jr., Washington, D.C., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Emily Bass, Margaret Winter, Winter & Bass, New York City, Krause & Rollins, Minneapolis, Minn., Ronald L. Rollins, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

DEVITT, District Judge.

The basic issue on motions for preliminary injunctions in each of these cases is whether the UFCW International Union had authority to appoint a trustee over Local P-9's affairs. The parties submitted memoranda and affidavits and presented oral argument on June 2, 1986.

The International Union, after a hearing, placed Local P-9 in trusteeship on May 7, 1986...

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