Opinion

National Labor Relations Board v. Talmadge Park

  • 608 F.3d 913
  • 188 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2925
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 12857
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Jun 23, 2010
Status
Published
On the bench
Jacobs, Sack, Goldberg
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 75.8%

The opinion

PER CURIAM:

The National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement of an order against respondent, Talmadge Park, pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 160 (e). When the order issued on May 27, 2009, only two of the Board’s five seats were filled. Though the National Labor Relations Act stipulates a three-member quorum, it also permits the Board to delegate its authority to a group of three or more members, any two of whom may constitute a quorum of that delegate group.

See

29 U.S.C. § 153 (b). Anticipating a triple vacancy, the Board in 2007 delegated its authority to a three-member group that continued to exercise the Board’s authority when the third member of the group vacated his seat. Such was the situation when the Board issued the order that is the subject of this petition.

In

Snell Island SNF LLC v. National Labor Relations Board,

568 F.3d 410 (2d Cir.2009), we held that two Board members may exercise the Board’s authority in such circumstances as a quorum of a three-member delegate group, overridden that holding in

New Process Steel, L.P. v. National Labor Relations Board,

— U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 2635 , — L.Ed.2d -, 2010 WL 2400089 (2010).

See id.

at-, 2010 WL 2400089 , *8. Recognizing that, on this point,

Snell Island

yields to

New Process Steel,

we conclude that the Board as constituted did not have the authority to issue the May 27, 2009 order against Talmadge Park. The Board’s petition is denied.

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