The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Western District court wrongly abandoned the 3rd Circuit’s long-standing test for determining whether to award interim injunctive relief in actions alleging unfair labor practices.

3rd Circuit Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie, writing for the court in a precedential opinion captioned Chester v. Grane Healthcare Co. , said the appeals court’s 40-year-old, two-pronged test for granting injunctions in those cases was not disturbed by a pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.