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- Title: Letourneau Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Author : Fifth Circuit. United States Circuit Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1945
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
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Before SIBLEY, HOLMES, and MCCORD, Circuit Judges. SIBLEY, C.J.: A rehearing is asked on two grounds: 1. Because our decree of injunction is not in terms against ""the officers, agents, successors and assigns"" of the LeTourneau Company as well as the Company itself; and, 2. Because the injunction does not prohibit expressly interference with the distributon of union literature on other parking lots which the Company may in the future establish, and other related or like unfair practices. We will deny a rehearing, but lest the denial be misunderstood, will state the reason. We think the provisions the Board wishes inserted in the decree are wholly unnecessary, and would add nothing to the effectiveness of the injunction. A decree of injunction, like other personal judgments, binds parties and their privies, and only these. This Company's officers, agents and successors, though not parties to this case personally, are privies of the Company. All that is necessary hereafter to bind any of them is to notify them of the injunction. Ex parte Lennon, 166 U.S. 548. As to assigns, they may or may not be bound by such an injunction. If the assignment be of the Company's whole plant and business, it is probable the assignee would be bound as a successor. If the parking lots alone were sold off for another use, we take it the injunction would not affect the new owner. Of course a sham sale to evade the injunction would not be allowed to succeed. Persons who are not parties nor in law affected by an injunction cannot be brought within it by naming them in it. Chase National Bank v. Norwalk, 291 U.S. 431. While it is common practice to write into injunctions such broad expressions as are under discussion, they really have no effect. Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d) correctly states the true law thus:
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