Supreme Court of the United States, 1961

National Labor Relations Board v. Mattison Machine Works

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided January 23, 1961 · Per Curiam

365 U.S. 123; 81 S. Ct. 434; 5 L. Ed. 2d 455; 1961 U.S. LEXIS 2043; 47 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2437 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Norton J. Come argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Stuart Rothman, Dominick L. Manoli and Allan I. Mendelsohn., J. Warren McCaffrey argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Charles B. Cannon., Harold A. Katz and Irving M. Friedman filed a brief for the United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement Workers of America, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

Cases that cite this one

75 later published cases cite this decision. The 23 that cite it most often are listed here.

National Labor Relations Board v. Black Bull Carting Inc. (2d Cir. 1994)
National Labor Relations Board v. Black Bull Carting Inc. (2d Cir. 1994)
National Labor Relations Board v. Arthur Sarnow Candy Co., Inc. And Lily Popcorn, Inc. (2d Cir. 1994)
National Labor Relations Board v. Bata Shoe Company, Inc., United Shoe Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Intervenor (4th Cir. 1967)
National Labor Relations Board v. Vsa, Incorporated, D/B/A Carolinas (4th Cir. 1994)
Vitek Electronics, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (3d Cir. 1981)
Blackman-Uhler Chemical Division, Synalloy Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (4th Cir. 1977)
Alpers' Jobbing Company, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (8th Cir. 1976)
National Labor Relations Board v. Kilgore Corporation (6th Cir. 1975)
Schmerler Ford, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (7th Cir. 1970)
Wm. H. D. Fones, Trustee, D/B/A Southern Industrial Laundry v. National Labor Relations Board (5th Cir. 1970)
Excelsior Laundry v. National Labor Relations Board (10th Cir. 1969)
National Labor Relations Board v. Red Bird Foods, Inc. (7th Cir. 1968)
National Labor Relations Board v. Carolina Natural Gas Corporation (4th Cir. 1967)
Cross Company v. National Labor Relations Board (6th Cir. 1961)
Celanese Corporation of America v. National Labor Relations Board (7th Cir. 1961)
National Labor Relations Board v. Bloomfield Health Care Center (2d Cir. 2010)
Avondale Industries, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (5th Cir. 1999)
Deffenbaugh Industries, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (8th Cir. 1997)
Uniroyal Technology Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (7th Cir. 1996)
Uniroyal Technology Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board (7th Cir. 1996)
Bituma Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board, Bituma Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board (8th Cir. 1994)
Swing Staging, Inc. Swing Staging Bridging, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (D.C. Cir. 1993)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion

Per Curiam.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed and the case remanded to that court for the entry of a decree enforcing the Board’s order. The refusal of the Court of Appeals to enforce that order because the Board’s notices of election contained a minor and unconfusing mistake in the employer’s corporate name, was plain error. It was well within the Board’s province to find, as it did, upon the record before it that this occurrence had not affected the fairness of the representation election, particularly in the absence of any contrary showing *124 by the employer, upon whom the burden of proof rested in this respect. That finding should have been accepted by the Court of Appeals. In the absence of proof by the employer that there has been prejudice to the fairness of the election such trivial irregularities of administrative procedure do not afford a basis for denying enforcement to an otherwise valid Board order.

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