United States Ninth Circuit

An affirmative bargaining order issued by the NLRB after nearly eight years of litigation involving employer-automotive dealer and a union is enforced over both the union's and employer's arguments that the NLRB's remedy in this case was either inadequate or inappropriate.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/17/2006
• Decided 04/16/2007
• Published 04/16/2007

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge., Before: ROBERT R. BEEZER, DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, and STEPHEN S. TROTT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert G. Hulteng, San Francisco, California, argued the case and was on the briefs for petitioner-intervenor M & M Automotive Group, Inc.;   Denise C. Barton and Michael G. Pedhirney, Littler Mendelson, P.C., were also on the briefs., David A. Rosenfeld, Alameda, California, argued the case and was on the briefs for petitioner-intervenor East Bay Automotive Council, et al.;  Caren P. Sencer, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, was also on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• David A. Fleischer, Washington, D.C., argued the case and was on the brief for petitioner-respondent National Labor Relations Board;  Arthur F. Rosenfeld, John E. Higgins Junior, Aileen Armstrong, and Meredith L. Jason, National Labor Relations Board, were also on the brief.