Los Angeles Unified School District v. United Teachers-Los Angeles

This appeal is taken by defendants United Teachers-Los Angeles (UTLA) and certain of its officers and employees from a temporary restraining order enjoining defendants (including a vast number of Doe-defendants) from engaging in a teachers’ strike against plaintiff Los Angeles Unified School District of Los Angeles County and from inducing plaintiff’s schoolteacher employees to engage in such a strike.

The facts are that plaintiff School District, a public school district organized and operating pursuant to the laws of the State of California, filed an action seeking a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, and permanent injunction against defendants restraining them from striking or engaging in a work stoppage. Plaintiff’s complaint alleged that defendants voted to and did commence a strike and work stoppage against plaintiff on April 13, 1970. In three separate declarations filed in support of its injunctive action, plaintiff stated: (1) that during the morning of April 13, 1970, a survey of junior and senior high schools in the district showed that 6,434 of the School District’s 12,210 secondary teachers had not reported for work; (2) that 5,870 of the…