United States Fifth Circuit

The NLRB cannot depart without reasonable explanation from a position it espoused for nearly twenty years, and factually indistinguishable caselaw that the circuit courts enforced for many years, that electrical industry employees just like operations coordinators are supervisors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before REYNALDO G. GARZA, DAVIS and JONES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Michael Pharis (argued), Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, for Entergy Gulf States, Inc., Rachel Gartner Lennie (argued), Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, Charles P. Donnelly, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, Claude L. Witherspoon, Acting Reg. Director, National Labor Relations Board, Fort Worth, TX, for National Labor Relations Board.


• For Appellees:
  
• William Lurye, Andrea J. Wilkes (argued), Robein, Urann & Lurye, Metairie, LA, J.J. Barry, IBEW, Washington, DC, George L. Crawford, IBEW Local 2286, Beaumont, TX, for Respondent.