Crowley Marine Services, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

His reasons are as two

grains of wheat hid

in two bushels of chaff; you

shall seek all day ere you find

them, and when you have them,

they are not worth the search.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. i.

The court’s per curiam opinion knocks down the modest, but real, requirement that a union requesting information from an employer explain, at the time of its request, the relevance, or at least potential relevance, of information not ordinarily pertinent to its role as bargaining representative. In its place, the court leaves a flattened, if not phantom, hurdle. Accordingly, and…