Federal Judge Refuses to Widen Big Labor's Union-Violence Loophole

Federal Judge Refuses to Widen Big Labor's Union-Violence Loophole

In a fiend-of-the-court brief they submitted this spring to Judge Douglas Woodcock, who is presiding over the case, top Bay State AFL-CIO bosses conceded that the "actions alleged to have been committed" by the Teamster defendants are "deeply problematic . . . ." Nevertheless, claimed the union hierarchy, "these actions may not be prosecuted under the Hobbs Act" because the defendants sought to achieve "legitimate labor ends" through their thuggery.