Case Name: NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Intervenor, v. AMERICAN DIRECTIONAL BORING, INC., Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2010-06-24
Citations: 383 F. App'x 594
Docket Number: No. 09-1194
Parties: NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Intervenor, v. AMERICAN DIRECTIONAL BORING, INC., Respondent.
Judges: Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BENTON, Circuit Judge, and VIKEN, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 383
Pages: 594–595

Head Matter:
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Intervenor, v. AMERICAN DIRECTIONAL BORING, INC., Respondent.
No. 09-1194.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted: Dec. 17, 2009.
Filed: June 24, 2010.
Linda Dreeben, Assistant General Counsel, Kellie Isbell, Meredith Jason, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, Ralph P. Tremain, National Labor Relations Board, St. Louis, MO, for Petitioner.
Christopher Grant, Schuchat & Cook, St. Louis, MO, for Intervenor.
Bryan M. Kaemmerer, Michael E. Ka-emmerer, McCarthy & Leonard, Chesterfield, MO, for Respondent.
Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, BENTON, Circuit Judge, and VIKEN, District Judge.
The Honorable James B. Loken stepped down as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at the close of business on March 31, 2010. He has been succeeded by the Honorable William Jay Riley.
The Honorable Jeffrey L. Viken, United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) has applied for enforcement of its Supplemental Decision and Order directing American Directional Boring, Inc. (ADB), to bargain with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 2, and granting other relief to remedy numerous unfair labor practices the Board found were committed by ADB in response to a union organizing effort. See 29 U.S.C. § 160(e). The Order was entered by two members of a three-member group to which the Board delegated all its powers in December 2007 pursuant to § 3(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 153(b). When the Order was entered on September 30, 2008, the five-member Board had only two members.
In New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB, 560 U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 2635, 2644-45, - L.Ed.2d- (June 17, 2010), the Supreme Court held that a two-member group may not exercise delegated authority when the total Board membership falls below three because "the delegation clause [in § 3(b) ] requires that a delegee group maintain a membership of three in order to exercise the delegated authority of the Board." Accordingly, we deny the application for enforcement.