United States Fourth Circuit

The employer did not commit an unfair labor practice in barring all solicitation, including union solicitation, from portions of private property where uninvited intrusion was already unlawful under Pennsylvania real estate law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/27/1999
• Decided 09/11/2001
• Published 09/12/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ARGUED:  Robert Lewis, Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, Woodbury, NY, for Weis Markets. Robert Paul Joy, Morgan, Brown & Joy, Boston, MA, for Amicus Curiae. Julie Brock Broido, Senior Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Board. Carey Robert Butsavage, Butsavage & Associates, P.C., Washington, DC, for Intervenor. ON BRIEF:  Roger S. Kaplan, Steven I. Farbman, Jackson, Lewis, Schnitzler & Krupman, Woodbury, NY, for Weis Markets.  Robert P. Morris, Morgan, Brown & Joy, Boston, MA, for Amicus Curiae.  Frederick L. Feinstein, General Counsel, Linda Sher, Associate General Counsel, John D. Burgoyne, Acting Deputy Associate General Counsel, Margaret A. Gaines, Supervisory Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for Board.  Marc A. Stefan, Butsavage & Associates, P.C.;  David Silberman, Bredhoff & Kaiser;  Jonathan Hiatt, James Coppess, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, for Intervenor.