United States Second Circuit

NLRB's backpay award that was ordered as a remedy for respondent's unlawful refusal to hire a paid union organizer, was not impermissibly speculative, and the discriminatee's earnings as an employee of the union during the backpay period need not be offset against the award.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/12/2000
• Decided 02/14/2001
• Published 02/14/2001

Judges

• FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:, Before FEINBERG, CARDAMONE and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Anne Marie Lofaso, Washington, DC (National Labor Relations Board), for Petitioner/Cross-Respondent., Dion Y. Kohler, Atlanta, GA (Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman), for Respondent/Cross-Petitioner., International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Nora H. Leyland, Washington, DC (Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, P.C.), for Petitioner/Cross-Respondent, amicus curiae., Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Maurice Baskin, Washington, DC (Venable, L.L.P.), for Respondent/Cross-Petitioner, amicus curiae.