Longshoremen v. Allied Int'l, Inc.

Longshoremen v. Allied Int'l, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 18, 1982 Decided April 20, 1982
Full case name	International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO v. Allied International, Inc.
Citations	456 U.S. 212 (more) 102 S.Ct. 1656; 72 L. Ed. 2d 21
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Allied Int'l v. Int'l Longshoremen's Ass'n, 492 F. Supp. 334 (D. Mass. 1980); reversed, 640 F.2d 1368 (1st Cir. 1981); cert. granted, 454 U.S. 814 (1981).
Holding
That the Longshoremen's Association by refusing to unload Soviet cargo in the United States had undertaken an unfair labor practice as defined by § 8(b) (4)(B) of the National Labour Relations Act.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	Powell, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
National Labor Relations Act

International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO v. Allied International, Inc., 456 U.S. 212 (1982), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that a trade union that refused to unload cargo from the Soviet Union in protest against the invasion of Afghanistan had engaged in a secondary boycott, an unfair labor practice under the National Labor Relations Act.^[1]