International Alliance Of Theatrical And Stage Employees And Moving Picture Machine Operators, Afl-Cio, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Compact Video Services, Inc.

50 F.3d 1464 63 USLW 2601 , 129 Lab.Cas. P 11,296 , 10 IER Cases 612 INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL AND STAGE EMPLOYEES AND MOVING PICTURE MACHINE OPERATORS, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMPACT VIDEO SERVICES, INC.; Compact Video Group, Inc.; Meridian Studios; Image Transform, Inc.; and John Donlon, Defendants-Appellees. No. 93-56664. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 7, 1994. Decided March 23, 1995. Ira L. Gottlieb, Taylor, Roth, Bush & Geffner, Burbank, CA, for plaintiff-appellant. Marita T. Covarrubias, Richard W. Kopenhefer, Raymond W. Thomas, Loeb & Loeb, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Before: BROWNING, GOODWIN, and FERGUSON, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge GOODWIN; Dissent by Judge FERGUSON. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge: 1 Legislation is enlisted from time to time in the chronic tension between labor and management, to the advantage of one side and to the disadvantage of the other. In this case we decide whether the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act ("WARN"), 29 U.S.C. Sec. 2101 et seq., applies to this contest…