New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB

New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB
Argued March 23, 2010
Decided June 17, 2010
Full case nameNew Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board
Docket no.08-1457
Citations560 U.S. 674 (more)
130 S. Ct. 2635; 177 L. Ed. 2d 162
Case history
Prior564 F.3d 840 (7th Cir. 2009); cert. granted, 558 U.S. 989 (2009).
Holding
A statute requiring the National Labor Relations Board to decide cases with a three-member quorum does not allow two of them to work despite a vacancy on the ground that they constitute a majority of the quorum.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor
Case opinions
MajorityStevens, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito
DissentKennedy, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor
Laws applied
Taft–Hartley Act

New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB, 560 U.S. 674 (2010), is a U.S. labor law case of the United States Supreme Court holding that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cannot make decisions without at least three members on a panel.