United States Tenth Circuit

The National Labor Relations Act does not prevent an Indian tribe from enacting a "right-to-work law" or entering into a lease with provisions making prohibitions similar to those in right-to-work laws.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2002
• Published 01/11/2002

Judges

• Before TACHA, Chief Judge, HOLLOWAY, Senior Circuit Judge, SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and EBEL, KELLY, HENRY, BRISCOE, LUCERO, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Nancy E. Kessler Platt, Supervisory Attorney, (Leonard R. Page, Acting General Counsel, John H. Ferguson, Associate General Counsel, Frederick L. Feinstein, General Counsel, Linda Sher, Associate General Counsel, Margery E. Lieber, Assistant General Counsel, and Eric G. Moskowitz, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, with her on the brief) of the National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Harlan Bernstein of Jolles & Bernstein, PC, Portland, OR, Matthew E. Ortiz of Catron, Catron & Sawtell, PA, Santa Fe, NM, Michael T. Garone of Jolles, Bernstein & Garone, Portland, OR, and Morton S. Simon of Simon, Oppenheimer & Ortiz, Santa Fe, NM, on the briefs for Intervenor-Appellant., Mickey D. Barnett, Law Offices of Mickey D. Barnett, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, and John C. Scully, Springfield, VA, filed an amicus curiae brief for the National Right to Work Foundation.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lee Bergen (Wayne H. Bladh, Daniel I.S.J. Rey-Bear, Thomas J. Peckham, with him on the brief) of Nordhaus, Haltom, Taylor, Taradash & Bladh, Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellee.