The National Labor Relations Board announced on March 12, 2013, that it will not seek en banc rehearing of Noel Canning v. NLRB et al., Nos. 12-1115 and 12-1153 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 2013), in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held that the President’s January 4, 2012 recess
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Ruling in Noel Canning Leaves Unanswered Questions For Internal Investigations In Healthcare Industry
By Jackson Lewis P.C. on
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled in Noel Canning v. NLRB et al., Nos. 12-1115 and 12-1153 (D.C. Cir. Jan. 25, 2013), that President Obama’s “Recess Appointments” of three new NLRB members in January 2012 were unconstitutional and, as a result, the Board lacked any constitutional authority to…