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United States v. United Mine Workers of America

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Concurrence
  
Frankfurter

Date decided
  
1947

Concur/dissent
  
Black, Douglas

Full case name
  
United States v. United Mine Workers of America

Citations
  
330 U.S. 258 (more) 67 S. Ct. 677; 91 L. Ed. 884; 1947 U.S. LEXIS 2954; 12 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P51,239; 19 L.R.R.M. 2346

Prior history
  
Cert. to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Plurality
  
Vinson, joined by Reed, Jackson, Burton

United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258 (1947), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court examined whether a trial court acted appropriately when it issued a restraining order to prevent a labor strike organized by coal miners. In an opinion written by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, the Court held that a restraining order and preliminary injunction prohibiting a strike did not violate the Clayton Antitrust Act or the Norris–La Guardia Act, that the trial court was authorized to punish the violation of its orders as criminal contempt,and that fines imposed by the trial court were warranted in the situation.

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