M Restaurants, Inc. v. San Francisco Local Joint Executive Board of Culinary Workers, Bartenders, Hotel, Motel & Club Service Workers & Dining Room Employees Union

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124 Cal. App. 3d 666·177 Cal. Rptr. 690·1981 Cal. App. LEXIS 2253

Court of Appeal of CaliforniaOctober 19, 1981Civ. 40108California6,095 words

Opinion

Taylor, J.

The case at bench concerns the issue of whether a preliminary injunction enjoining defendant unions from threatening and/or committing acts of intimidation and violence and limiting the numbers and spacing of picketers issued prior to the Moscone Bill (Code Civ. Proc., § 527.3) should now be dissolved. We filed an opinion in which we concluded that the trial court’s order upholding the preliminary injunction should be affirmed. The Supreme Court granted a hearing and then retransferred the cause to this court “with directions to refile its opinion with appropriate discussion of Kaplan’s Fruit & Produce Co. v. Superior Court (1979) 26 Cal.3d 60 [ 160 Cal.Rptr. 745 , 603 P.2d 1341 ].” We understand our jurisdiction upon retransfer to be limited to execution of the Supreme Court’s direction (cf. Nichols v. Canoga Industries (1978) 83 Cal.App.3d 956, 958 [ 148 Cal.Rptr. 459 ]); hence we reject the unions’ contention that, in effect, we should now reconsider our previous approval of those parts of the preliminary injunction which limited the numbers and spacing of pickets: As the unions correctly point out, the numbers and spacing issue was not reached in Kaplan’s Fruit &…

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Parties

M RESTAURANTS, INC.
Plaintiff
SAN FRANCISCO LOCAL JOINT EXECUTIVE BOARD OF CULINARY WORKERS, BARTENDERS, HOTEL, MOTEL AND CLUB SERVICE WORKERS AND DINING ROOM EMPLOYEES UNION, Local No. 9
Defendant

Judges

Taylor

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