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International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Local 37 v. Boyd

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Questioned by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
347 U.S. 222
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
61 of 61
Citing cases (total)
61
Treatment dates
1971
Questioned by some courts
At least one reviewed court has questioned this case’s reasoning or continued validity. No reviewed court has overruled it. International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Local 37 v. Boyd has been questioned. All 61 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

The Second Circuit said Boyd had been “politely overlooked” by the Supreme Court, although it had never been expressly overruled. That treatment is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

61 later cases cite International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Local 37 v. Boyd; 61 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Questioned

  • The Second Circuit questioned Boyd's continuing force while holding that an announced threat of exclusion presented a ripe claim.

    Itzcovitz v. Selective Service Local Board No. 6 · Second Circuit · filed

    While ILWU Local 37 v. Boyd, 347 U.S. 222, 74 S.Ct. 447, 98 L.Ed. 650 (1954), has never been expressly overruled, it has been politely overlooked by the Supreme Court for at least ten years.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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