Supreme Court Holds NLRB Recess Appointments Invalid. Chaos Ensues?

A copy of the opinion is here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-1281_bodg.pdf

 

If you read the early analysis around the Web, you will see people calling this opinion “narrow” and “limited.” Make no mistake. If you are an employer, this case is huge. It likely means that every case decided by the NLRB during the time of the recess appointments is void. That’s more than a year of NLRB decisions out the window, including some of its cutting edge, and controversial, decisions on issues such as social media and protected concerted activity. 

 

Stay tuned for more analysis of this critical Supreme Court decision.