Phelps Dodge Corp. v. Labor Board

Holding that the NLRA limits the Board's backpay authority to restoring “actual losses”

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Great Dane Trailers, Inc.

Holding that substantial evidence supported the Board's finding of discriminatory conduct as the Company failed to meet its burden of establishing legitimate motives for its conduct

Republic Aviation Corp. v. Board

Finding an absence of special circumstances where employer failed to introduce evidence of "unusual circumstances involving their plants."

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Fleetwood Trailer Co.

In Fleetwood Trailer, 389 U.S. 375, 88 S.Ct. 543, the Supreme Court was required to determine whether the employer violated the Act when it hired six new employees who had not previously worked for the company instead of six former strikers who had applied for reinstatement.

Labor Board v. Mackay Co.

Holding that an employer may replace striking workers with others to carry on business so long as the employer is not guilty of unfair labor practices

SCM Corp. v. Advance Business Systems & Supply Co.

Upholding a delay of three months where only prejudice shown was that the defendants could not recall details of the days in the distant past; no special circumstances

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. J. H. Rutter-Rex Manufacturing Co.

Holding that the NLRB "is not required to place the consequences of its own delay, even if inordinate, upon wronged employees to the benefit of wrongdoing employers."

Brewer v. Lincoln National Life Ins. Co.

Applying a mental illness limitation in an ERISA policy to deny benefits, despite expert evidence that participant suffered from affective mood disorder caused genetically or biologically, because "laypersons are inclined to focus on the symptoms of an illness; illnesses whose primary symptoms are depression, mood swings and unusual behavior are commonly characterized as mental illnesses regardless of their cause. . . . Regardless of the cause of his disorder, it is abundantly clear that he suffered from what laypersons would consider to be a 'mental illness'"

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Magnavox Co. of Tennessee

In Magnavox, the Board changed its bifurcated rule and adopted the Eighth Circuit's view that the union had no power to waive employee distribution rights on behalf of either itself or another union.

Temengil v. Trust Territory