# Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. v. National Labor Relations Board

> Supreme Court of the United States · December 12, 1949 · 338 U.S. 355

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9420413

## Case

- **Full name:** COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** December 12, 1949
- **Citations:** 338 U.S. 355; 70 S. Ct. 166; 94 L. Ed. 2d 161; 1949 U.S. LEXIS 2920
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Reed
- **Judges:** Minton, Reed, Burton, Douglas
- **Cited by:** 50 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing that the District Court rejected the government’s argument that employees were bound by their signed Notice of Personal Action which designated their positions as exempt.

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Reed and Mr. Justice Burton
dissent. In their opinion the adjustment between § 7 and § 8 (3) made by the National Labor Relations Board is permissible. The use of the closed-shop privilege to interfere with the free exercise of the laborers’ choice does not seem to them to be within the purpose of the Labor Act.
Mr. Justice Douglas took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

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