All Topics  
Norris-LaGuardia Act

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Norris-LaGuardia Act
 
 
  Topics Norris-LaGuardia Act Topic Home

The Norris–La Guardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) of 1932 was a United States federal law that made yellow-dog contract
Yellow-dog contract

A yellow-dog contract is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a trade union....
s, or those in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment that he would not join a labor union
Trade union

A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions....
, unenforceable in federal court
United States federal courts

The United States federal courts comprises the Judiciary of government organized under the United States Constitution and Law of the United States of the federal government of the United States....
; the common title followed from the names of the sponsors of the legislation: Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
 Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 George Norris of Nebraska
Nebraska

Nebraska is a U.S. state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Western United States.Nebraska probably gets its name from the archaic Chiwere language words ?? Br?sge or the Omaha-Ponca language N? Bth?ska meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state....
 and Representative
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
 Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The act established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer interference, and also withdrew from the federal courts
United States federal courts

The United States federal courts comprises the Judiciary of government organized under the United States Constitution and Law of the United States of the federal government of the United States....
 jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes.

Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 in New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.

New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., Case citation , was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, safeguarding a right to boycott and in the struggle by African Americans against Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hiring practices....
, in which, in an opinion authored by Justice
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States....
 Owen Roberts, the Court held that the act meant to prohibit employers from proscribing the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the terms and conditions of employment by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.








Discussion
Ask a question about 'Norris-LaGuardia Act'
Start a new discussion about 'Norris-LaGuardia Act'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


The Norris–La Guardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) of 1932 was a United States federal law that made yellow-dog contract
Yellow-dog contract

A yellow-dog contract is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a trade union....
s, or those in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment that he would not join a labor union
Trade union

A trade union or labor union is an organization run by and for workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours, and working conditions....
, unenforceable in federal court
United States federal courts

The United States federal courts comprises the Judiciary of government organized under the United States Constitution and Law of the United States of the federal government of the United States....
; the common title followed from the names of the sponsors of the legislation: Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
 Senator
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 George Norris of Nebraska
Nebraska

Nebraska is a U.S. state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and Western United States.Nebraska probably gets its name from the archaic Chiwere language words ?? Br?sge or the Omaha-Ponca language N? Bth?ska meaning "flat water," after the Platte River that flows through the state....
 and Representative
United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
 Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The act established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer interference, and also withdrew from the federal courts
United States federal courts

The United States federal courts comprises the Judiciary of government organized under the United States Constitution and Law of the United States of the federal government of the United States....
 jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes.

Section 13A of the act was fully applied by the Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
 in New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co.

New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co., Case citation , was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, safeguarding a right to boycott and in the struggle by African Americans against Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hiring practices....
, in which, in an opinion authored by Justice
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States....
 Owen Roberts, the Court held that the act meant to prohibit employers from proscribing the peaceful dissemination of information concerning the terms and conditions of employment by those involved in an active labor dispute, even when such dissemination occurs on employer property.

External links

(PDF
Portable Document Format

Portable Document Format is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system....
)