Paramount Transport Systems v. Chauffeurs, Teamsters & Helpers Local 150

The defendants-appellants, Local 150, and the defendants-appellants, Local 17, (Unions) each appeal from a substantial several judgment entered in a National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 187 , action for damages sustained by the plaintiff-appellee, above named, (Paramount), and resulting from the Unions’ joint unfair labor practices as defined by 29 U.S.C. § 158 (b)(4). We affirm.

At an early stage, the District Court granted a summary judgment in favor of Paramount on the issue of the Unions’ liability for unlawful labor relations practices. This court, on the Unions’ interlocutory appeal from the summary judgment, recited that the trial examiner in a prior § 158(b)(4) hearing had found that:

This court then concluded that:

Thereafter a jury trial was held on the issue of Paramount’s damages. The District Court received in evidence and submitted to the jury as conclusive on the issue of the Unions’ liability the entire opinion of the trial examiner in the § 158(b)(4) proceedings, which included, inter alia, Finding of Fact E as follows:

The Unions’ some four variously phrased assertions of error on this appeal center around the District Court’s utilization of…