Today, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit invalidated three of President Obama’s recent appointments to the NLRB on constitutional grounds. In Noel Canning v. NLRB, a unanimous court held that the appointments of Sharon Block, Terence Flynn, and Richard Griffin to the Board on January 4, 2012 were
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California Supreme Court Endorses Favoritism For Union Trespassers
By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on
California has enacted special labor laws that make it nearly impossible for employers to obtain injunctions against union trespass. This content-based favoritism for one form of speech raises constitutional questions, as federal courts have recognized. On December 27, 2012, however, in Ralphs Grocery Co. v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union …