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By:  John J. Toner, Esq.

The Supreme Court today issued its much anticipated decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning, regarding the President’s authority to avoid the Senate’s confirmation procedure by granting recess appointments to fill  vacant positions. The decision specifically involved the legitimacy of the President’s recess appointment of Terence Flynn, Sharon Block,…

By:  Marshall B. Babson, Esq.           

           In perhaps the most important constitutional case involving the NLRB since the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA” or “Act”) was decided 76 years ago in Jones & Laughlin v. NLRB, the Supreme Court  this morning heard argument in NLRB v. Noel Canning.  On its…