International Molders etc. Union v. Superior Court

In International Molders etc. Union v. Superior Court (1977) 70 Cal.App.3d 395, the court found that "Nothing in section 527.3, subdivision (b), prevents a court from placing reasonable restrictions on picketing where, as here, the absence of such restrictions has resulted in threats of violence and interference with access and with freedom of movement . . ." (p. 406). In addition, the court rejected the reading of "'whether . . . singly or in numbers' in subsection (b)(2)," as prohibiting a numbers and spacing injunction. Rather, the phrase was interpreted to be "merely descriptive of the picketing activity which the statute condones and which is commonly carried on by more than a single picket" (p. 404).