United States:
Obama's NLRB Recess Appointments Deemed Unconstitutional: >100 Decisions Impacted
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In a ruling issued today, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decided
that President Obama's January 4, 2012, recess appointments of
three National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) members
violated the Constitution. The ruling is of great
significance: it invalidates every single
decision—of which there are more than a
hundred—that the Board handed down from January 2012 through
summer 2013 (the period the Board included the three Presidential
appointees, before he appointed replacement members that the Senate
properly confirmed).
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