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Labor Board v. Nevada Copper Co.

U.S.
Apr 27, 1942
316 U.S. 105 (1942)

Summary

holding that "if the findings of the Board are supported by evidence the courts are not free to set them aside even though the Board could have drawn different inferences"

Summary of this case from BRAE LOCH MANOR HEALTH CARE FACILITY v. THOMPSON

Opinion

CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT.

No. 774.

Argued April 8, 1942. Decided April 27, 1942.

Findings of fact by the National Labor Relations Board supported by evidence are conclusive. P. 106. 122 F.2d 587, reversed.

CERTIORARI, 315 U.S. 789, to review a judgment refusing to enforce an order of the National Labor Relations Board.

Mr. Ernest A. Gross, with whom Solicitor General Fahy and Messrs. Richard S. Salant, Robert B. Watts, and Morris P. Glushien were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. C.C. Parsons, with whom Mr. H.M. Fennemore was on the brief, for respondent.


In this case the National Labor Relations Board found that respondent, in refusing to reemploy a number of its former employees and to employ two new applicants, had discriminated against them in order to discourage membership in a labor union in violation of § 8(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, 29 U.S.C. § 151. The Board made its order directing employment of these individuals with back pay. The Circuit Court of Appeals refused to enforce the Board's order on the ground that its findings were without substantial support in the evidence. 122 F.2d 587.

Examination of the record discloses that there was substantial evidence from which the Board could have concluded that respondent's refusal to employ the men was motivated by its belief that they had engaged or threatened to engage in destruction of respondent's property and had threatened to injure some of respondent's managerial employees and members of their families. There was also substantial evidence from which the Board could have concluded, as it did, that respondent's motive for refusing the employment was discouragement of membership in a labor union. The possibility of drawing either of two inconsistent inferences from the evidence did not prevent the Board from drawing one of them, as the court below seems to have thought.

We have repeatedly held that Congress, by providing, § 10(c), (e) and (f), of the National Labor Relations Act, that the Board's findings "as to the facts, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive," precludes the courts from weighing evidence in reviewing the Board's orders, and if the findings of the Board are supported by evidence the courts are not free to set them aside, even though the Board could have drawn different inferences. Labor Board v. Link-Belt Co., 311 U.S. 584, and cases cited; Labor Board v. Automotive Maintenance Co., 315 U.S. 282; cf. Swayne Hoyt, Ltd. v. United States, 300 U.S. 297, 307; Federal Trade Comm'n v. Pacific Paper Assn., 273 U.S. 52, 63; Federal Trade Comm'n v. Algoma Co., 291 U.S. 67, 73. Since upon an examination of the record we cannot say that the findings of fact of the Board are without support in the evidence, the judgment below must be reversed with directions to enforce the Board's order, but with the modification proposed by the Board to conform to our decision in Republic Steel Corp. v. Labor Board, 311 U.S. 7.

Reversed.


Summaries of

Labor Board v. Nevada Copper Co.

U.S.
Apr 27, 1942
316 U.S. 105 (1942)

holding that "if the findings of the Board are supported by evidence the courts are not free to set them aside even though the Board could have drawn different inferences"

Summary of this case from BRAE LOCH MANOR HEALTH CARE FACILITY v. THOMPSON

In NLRB v. Nevada Consolidated Copper Corp., 316 U.S. 105, this Court enforced an order of the Board directing an employer to hire, with retroactive benefits, former employees who had not applied for newly available jobs because of the employer's well-known policy of refusing to hire union members.

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ordering persons discriminatorily refused employment hired with "any seniority or other rights and privileges they would have acquired, had the respondent not unlawfully discriminated against them"

Summary of this case from Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co.

In Labor Board v. Nevada Consolidated Copper Corp., 316 U.S. 105, 107, we reversed a judgment refusing to enforce a Board order because "upon an examination of the record we cannot say that the findings of fact of the Board are without support in the evidence."

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Case details for

Labor Board v. Nevada Copper Co.

Case Details

Full title:NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v . NEVADA CONSOLIDATED COPPER CORP

Court:U.S.

Date published: Apr 27, 1942

Citations

316 U.S. 105 (1942)

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