National Labor Relations Board v. Local No. 42, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers

OPINION SUR PETITION FOR REHEARING IN BANC

Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and HASTIE, VAN DUSEN, ALDISERT, ADAMS, GIBBONS, ROSENN and HUNTER, Circuit Judges.

SEITZ, Chief Judge.

The petition for rehearing, filed by respondent Local No. 42, asserts several grounds for rehearing in banc; but we need address ourselves only to the attack on the validity of our Local Rule 12(6) which provides in pertinent part that: “Ox’al argument may be dispensed with, or shortened, by an unanimous order of the panel to which the case has been assigned.”

The petitioner first contends that the panel’s denial of oral…