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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: 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…