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UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL 1330, et al. v. UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION

No. C 79-2337 Y

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO, EASTERN DIVISION

492 F. Supp. 1; 1980 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17304; 103 L.R.R.M. 2925; 90 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P12,445


Order February 29, 1980

SUBSEQUENT HISTORY: [**1] On Injunctive and Declaratory Relief March 21, 1980.On Violation of Antitrust Laws April 14, 1980.
CASE SUMMARY
PROCEDURAL POSTURE: Plaintiff union filed a motion for preliminary relief, seeking to enjoin defendant steel mill from proceeding with a plan to shut down its plant.

OVERVIEW: The union filed suit against the steel mill, seeking to enforce the mill's alleged promise to keep its plants open so long as it remained profitable. The union's complaint alleged breach of contract, promissory estoppel, violation of antitrust statutes, and property right. Upon the union's motion, the court temporarily enjoined the steel mill from closing the plants. The steel mill sought a stay of the enforcement of the order pending an emergency appeal to the appellate court. The stay was denied and the court's injunctive order was affirmed as modified into a temporary restraining order for a definite period. The court found for the steel mill in the areas of breach of contract and promissory estoppel, holding that the union provided insufficient evidence to prove that corporate officers had authority to make such promises. The court found that there was insufficient evidence to rule on the antitrust allegations and ordered a preliminary enjoinder of the steel mill for 60 days for the parties to prepare evidence and brief the law on those claims.

OUTCOME: The court found for the steel mill on the union's breach of contract and promissory estoppel claims, but ordered a preliminary enjoinder of the steel mill pending the ultimate disposition of the case by the court.


CORE TERMS: plant, steel, profitable, profitability, productivity, message, financing, hot-line, property right, detrimental reliance, antitrust, region, obsolescence, pretrial conference, steel mills, cooperation, preliminary injunction, anti-trust, shutdown, estoppel, injunctive relief, profit margin, save, probability, forbearance, unilateral, promised, binding, technological, restraining


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