Case Name: AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. et al., Petitioners, and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Inc., Intervenor, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent; NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., Intervenors, v. WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, WEST, INC., Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1976-11-22
Citations: 547 F.2d 159
Docket Number: Nos. 604, 1161, Dockets 75-4089, 75-4121
Parties: AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. et al., Petitioners, and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Inc., Intervenor, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., Intervenors, v. WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, WEST, INC., Respondent.
Judges: Before MOORE and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and NEWMAN, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 547
Pages: 159–161

Head Matter:
AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC. et al., Petitioners, and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Inc., Intervenor, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., et al., Intervenors, v. WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, WEST, INC., Respondent.
Nos. 604, 1161, Dockets 75-4089, 75-4121.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued May 10, 1976.
Decided Nov. 22, 1976.
John G. Elligers, Atty., N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C. (John S. Irving, Gen. Counsel, John E. Higgins, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, Elliott Moore, Deputy Assoc. Gen. Counsel, N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., on the brief), for petitioner-respondent N.L.R.B.
Richard N. Fisher, Los Angeles, Cal. (Steven C. Babb, and O’Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief), for petitionersintervenors American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., CBS, Inc., and National Broadcasting Co., Inc.
Harry J. Keaton, Los Angeles, Cal. (Andrew B. Kaplan, and Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief), for intervenor Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Inc.
Julius Reich, Los Angeles, Cal. (Reich, Adell & Crost, and Selvin & Weiner, Los Angeles, Cal, on the brief), for respondent Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.
Before MOORE and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and NEWMAN, District Judge.
Hon. Jon O. Newman, United States District nation. Judge, District of Connecticut, sitting by desig-

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
On this petition to review by the networks (American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., CBS, Inc., and National Broadcasting Company, Inc.), and an application by the National Labor Relations Board to enforce an order of the Board, 217 N.L.R.B. No. 159 (1975), requiring the union (Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.) to cease and desist from certain conduct during a strike found to be in violation of Section 8(b)(1)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act and to take certain affirmative action to remedy the violations, we find the essential issue to be whether as a matter of law the Board correctly applied Section 8(b)(1)(B) in concluding that the union restrained and coerced the employers by threatening to blacklist and discipline and by fining and expelling from membership certain supervisory personnel who crossed the picket lines during a strike.
For substantially the reasons set forth in the dissenting opinion of Board Member John H. Fanning, 217 N.L.R.B. No. 159, we hold that the Board as a matter of law incorrectly applied Section 8(b)(1)(B) to the instant case and we deny enforcement of the Board's order. See Florida Power & Light Co. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 641, 417 U.S. 790 (1974).
Enforcement denied.