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During the week following its issuance, Kathi Allen and Stephen R. Domesick, attorneys for HSWOC, twice appealed the restraining order. The motion was denied on both occasions. A few days after the issuance of the restraining order, Cronin filed a contempt charge. He claimed that waitresses continued to picket the restaurant following the issuance of the restraining order on Tuesday, February...
Erdmann countered the charge saying: "Those (people) who continued to picket after Tuesday--who have been charged by Cronin to be agents for the waitresses--are merely citizens who are concerned with the plight of the waitresses...
That afternoon, Judge Anthony Julian of the Federal District Court for eastern Massachusetts ruled that jurisdiction in the case involving the right of waitresses at Cronin's Restaurant to picket lies exclusively in federal court. Julian also ruled that a written stipulation by James C. Gahan, Jr., '34, Cronin's attorney, permitting peaceful picketing would sufficiently "cover" the earlier restraining order by clarifying the right of the HSWOC members to resume picketing...
...waitresses returned to the picket line the next morning. More than 20 other groups participated in the picket line. Those groups included Cambridge Ministers, the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee, Women for Action against Sexism, SDS, and the Adams House Collective...
...decision declared that the waitresses had every right to continue peaceful picketing, including asking potential customers not to eat in Cronin's. However, it directed a special admonition that the waitresses must not engage in unlawful picket activities, particularly by blocking the door to the restaurant or using "vile and abusive language" against customers crossing the picket line...