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To hear this audio story featuring Kristi Remington, John Elwood, and Deepak Gupta, click this link.   Kali Borkoski:  On June 26, the Court announced its decision in National Labor Relations B...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/07/political-consequences-of-nlrb-v-noel-canning/

John Neiman is Chair of the Appellate Group at Maynard, Cooper & Gale P.C.  As the former Solicitor General of Alabama, he was counsel of record for the amicus brief 17 States filed supporting t...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-the-majority-opinion-should-be-all-the-senate-really-needs/

As many people predicted, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down President Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).  By declaring that he has the power to d...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-justice-breyers-dowsing-rod-finds-a-limit-to-the-recess-appointments-clause/

In National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, the Supreme Court unanimously concluded that three NLRB members were unconstitutionally appointed by President Obama under the guise of his rece...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-the-senate-must-act-to-end-dysfunction/

“e must hesitate to upset the compromises and working arrangements that the elected branches of Government have reached,” writes Justice Stephen Breyer in his majority opinion in National Lab...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-noel-canning-and-the-hesitant-court/

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the high degree of unanimity at the Supreme Court this Term.  But while today’s decision in National Labor Relations Board v. Canning may have been ...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-a-win-for-the-constitutions-text-and-history/

For those who care primarily about partisan politics, labor law, or the narrative of executive overreach, the Court’s decision yesterday in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning is a u...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-what-divides-the-court-and-what-unites-it/

In National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, the Supreme Court (by a vote of five to four) rejected two major structural challenges to the recess appointments power, but all the Justices in...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/can-a-president-with-a-little-help-from-one-senator-of-his-party-circumvent-most-of-the-courts-limitation-on-the-recess-appointments-power/

The Supreme Court today gave a stinging defeat to President Barack Obama in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, holding that the president did not have any power to make recess appoi...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/06/symposium-custom-and-textual-meaning-chevron-deference-should-not-be-allowed-to-manufacture-constitutional-ambiguity/

This week we are hosting an online symposium on National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, in which the Court will consider the constitutionality of the president’s recess appointments to...

https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/symposium-will-the-supreme-court-duck-the-recess-appointments-battle/