Legal Opinion

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Canning

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 26, 2014No. 12-1281PublishedCited by 200 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

Respondent Noel Canning, a Pepsi-Cola distributor, asked the D.C. Circuit to set aside an order of the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that the Board lacked a quorum because three of the five Board members had been invalidly appointed. The nominations of the three members in question were pending in the Senate when it passed a December 17, 2011, resolution providing for a series of " pro forma session[s]," with "no business ... transacted," every Tuesday and Friday through January 20, 2012. S. J., 112th Cong., 1st Sess., 923. Invoking the Recess Appointments Clause-which gives the…

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2Cases cited41 opinions

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