# National Labor Relations Board v. Howell Chevrolet Co.

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · May 18, 1953 · 204 F.2d 79

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9443721

## Case

- **Full name:** National Labor Relations Board v. Howell Chevrolet Co.
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** May 18, 1953
- **Citations:** 204 F.2d 79
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Stephens
- **Judges:** Stephens, Pope, Harrison
- **Cited by:** 58 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
Once the business of the automobile dealer is held to be in interstate commerce, there is nothing to do but order the Board’s order enforced. And this we must do under National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc., 1944, 322 U.S. 111 , 64 S.Ct. 851 , 88 L.Ed. 1170 , and National Labor Relations Board v. Townsend, 9 Cir., 1950, 185 F.2d 378 .
Notwithstanding, I remain unconvinced that the word “employee” actually means more in the Wagner Act than elsewhere (Hearst case) or that a simple business transaction within a state is interstate commerce because of a fine-spun tracing of a remotely possible and unmeasurable relation to trade across a state line (Townsend case). Judge Harrison joins me in this concurrence.

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