Allee v. Medrano

Allee v. Medrano
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 20, 1974
Full case name	Allee v. Medrano
Citations	416 U.S. 802 ( more )
Holding
Police officers' interference with a strike was a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
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	Douglas
Concur/dissent	Burger, joined by White, Rehnquist
Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Allee v. Medrano, 416 U.S. 802(1974), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that police officers' interference with a strike was a violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. ^{[1] [2]}

Background

From June 1966 to June 1967, unionists attempted to unionize farmworkers and persuade them to support or join a labor strike. They were subjected to persistent harassment and violence by Texas Rangers. In July 1967, a state court issued a temporary injunction against the unionists, proscribing picketing on or near property of one of the major employers in the area. The unionists filed a federal civil rights action under Section 1983, attacking the constitutionality of certain Texas statutes and alleging that the law-enforcement officers conspired to deprive the unionists of their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. A three-judge federal district court declared five of the statutes unconstitutional and enjoined their enforcement, and in addition permanently enjoined the officers from intimidating the unionists in their organizational efforts. ^{[1] [3] [4]}

References

1. Allee v. Medrano, 416 U.S. 802 (1974).
2. Lareau, N. Peter (May 2014) [2003]. Labor and Employment Law. pp. 19-4.
3. Pate, Stephen P. (Spring 2021). "Viva la Huelga! The Starr County Strike, Chicanos, Texas Rangers and the Landmark Supreme Court Decision in Medrano v. Allee". Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society (3): 10.
4. Abram Chayes, Foreword: Public Law Litigation and the Burger Court , 96 HARV. L. REV. 4, 19-20 (November 1982).

External links

• Text of Allee v. Medrano, 416 U.S. 802(1974) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Justia

This article incorporates written opinion of a United States federal court. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the text is in the public domain .