injunction

(noun)

A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.

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Examples of injunction in the following topics:

  • The Pullman Strike

    • Olney obtained an injunction barring union leaders from supporting the strike, demanding that the strikers cease their activities or face being fired.
    • Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.

  • Norris–La Guardia Act

    • The Norris–LaGuardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) was a 1932 United States federal law that banned yellow-dog contracts, barred federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions.
    • It also established as United States law that employees should be free to form unions without employer interference, and also withdrew from the federal courts jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes.

  • Revoking Commit Access

    • This contradicts the usual injunction against secrecy, but in this case it's necessary.

  • The Labor Wars

    • Walker went to federal court and obtained an injunction barring union leaders from supporting the boycott in any way.
    • The court injunction was based on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which prohibited "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States. " Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.

  • Labor Management Relations Act

    • Furthermore, the executive branch of the Federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an impending or current strike imperiled the national health or safety, a test that has been interpreted broadly by the courts.

  • Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval During the Transition to Peace

    • The public was so anti-labor union that in 1922, the Harding administration was able to procure a court injunction to destroy a railroad strike of about 400,000 workers.

  • The Rise of Modernism

    • The poet Ezra Pound's 1934 injunction to "Make it new!"

  • Early U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

    • They ended up in the New York Court of Errors, which granted a permanent injunction against Gibbons in 1820.
    • The Court of Chancery and the Court of Errors of New York were in favor of Ogden and issued an injunction restricting Gibbons from operating his boats.

  • Competing Solutions

    • Finally, the 1932 Norris-La Guardia Anti-injunction Act supported the organized labor.
    • The law curbed "yellow dog" contracts (hiring replacement workers to break strikes), curtailed the ability of federal courts to issue injunctions against non-violent labor disputes (e.g., strikes), and supported the right of laborers to organize.

  • Setbacks for Unions

    • Corporations used twice as many court injunctions against strikes than during any comparable period.
    • The Harding administration, which obtained a court injunction that destroyed the national railroad workers' strike in 1922, also helped to end a nationwide strike of about 650,000 miners.