Taylor
Taylor v. International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 WILLIAM TAYLOR, Case No. 21-cv-08712-WHO
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR
v. SUMMARY JUDGMENT
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF Re: Dkt. No. 89 PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES, et al., 11 Defendants.
13 William Taylor, a journeyman member of the International Union of Painters and Allied 14 Trades (“IUPAT”), District Council 36, Local Union 510, brings this suit against his union and six 15 union officials alleging that they engaged in a series of financial and other improprieties in 16 violation of 29 U.S.C. § 501 of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 17 (“LMRDA”). In his opposition to defendants’ motion for summary judgment, Taylor failed to 18 offer evidence to support many of the allegations in his second amended complaint (“SAC”) in order to create a material dispute of fact. His claims cannot succeed because the IUPAT 20 Constitution does not require what he wants, he has not shown that defendants took improper 21 benefits or acted in bad faith,…