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

By:  Michele Haydel Gehrke, Esq.

On October 29, 2013, the Senate voted 55-44 to confirm Richard Griffin as General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board.  The Senate vote was mostly along party lines, with only Republican Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska) voting with her Democratic colleagues for confirmation.  Griffin replaces Acting General Counsel Lafe

By: Bryan Bienias, Esq.

After months of partisan political jujitsu, the U.S. Senate last week confirmed all five of President Obama’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board. The three Democratic and two Republican members include Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce (D), Kent Hirozawa (D), Nancy Schiffer (D), Harry I. Johnson, III (R), and Philip

By:  Christopher Busey, Esq.

Who imagined that the hottest topic in labor law for over six months would actually be a question of constitutional law?  Yet that remains the case after the Fourth Circuit’s recent 2-1 decision in NLRB v. Enterprise Leasing Co. Southeast, LLC, No. 12-1514, July 17, 2013.

In Noel Canning