Task: songer_subevid

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to issues that may appear in civil law issues involving government actors. The issue is: "Did the court's interpretation of the substantial evidence rule support the government? For example, "such evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion" or "more than a mere scintilla". This issue is present only when the court indicates that it is using this doctrine, rather than when the court is merely discussing the evidence to determine whether the evidence supports the position of the appellant or respondent." Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".

PER CURIAM.
The Board’s order, sought to be enforced in this case, was based on findings that on June 3, 1941, a C. I. O. local was the representative of a majority of the respondent’s employees, and that the respondent had evaded its duty in refusing to bargain collectively with it; and further, that it had “demonstrated its favoritism” toward a union of its own employees, which it dominated and with which it bargained collectively. Upon these findings it ordered the respondent to cease from dominating the employees’ union and from continuing to recognize it, and it affirmatively ordered the respondent to bargain with the C. I. O. local.
The respondent raises as its first objection that in counting the membership cards of the C. I. O. local the Board included thirteen employees, who testified that they joined the local because the local’s organizer, or other members of the local, told them that if they did not, they would, or might, lose their jobs. If these thirteen votes were not unlawfully procured, the local had a majority. We have held that this kind of pressure to obtain votes is lawful. National Labor Relations Board v. Dahlstrom Metallic Door Co., 2 Cir., 112 F.2d 756, 758. We reiterate that ruling. A labor union may, if it can, induce an employer to operate a “closed shop”; and that will ipso facto result in taking away the jobs of all who will not join the union. There can be nothing unlawful in threatening to do that which it is lawful to do.
The other point arises as follows: The last determination of a majority of employees was made on June 3, 1941, as we have said, and the Board’s order was entered on July 8, 1942. On March 18, 1942, the respondent and the employees’ union moved the Board to determine whether the C. I. O. local then represented a majority of the employees, and whether it was therefore their lawful representative. The Board denied this motion for the following reasons: “The allegations of these petitions, even if true, are subsequent to and in no way affect the acts complained of, or the legal conclusion to be drawn therefrom.” That was indeed true; nothing in the petitions affected the acts complained of, or the legal conclusion to be drawn from them; nevertheless, they did allege facts which might well affect the continued propriety of recognizing the local. It is not our province to decide how far the respondent’s earlier unfair trade practices continue to vitiate any choice of a representative by its employees: that is for the Board. Nevertheless, the respondent is entitled to the Board’s judgment on that issue and on this record it has been refused any hearing whatever. We have very recently dealt with a similar question in National Labor Relations Board v. New York Merchandising Company, Inc., 2 Cir., 133 F.2d 949; and we need not repeat what we said there. This is not a case where, after the Board has once decided against the employer, he applies to us for a rehearing because of some alleged change in the situation; as we said, such an application “should be scrutinized with jealousy lest it open the door to abuse.” Here the application was made while the matter was still pending before the Board, which should not have dismissed it for the sole reason that it affected a situation alleged to have arisen since the testimony was taken. Nothing in National Labor Relations Board v. P. Lorillard Co., 314 U.S. 512, 62 S.Ct. 397, 86 L.Ed. 380, is to the contrary of this position.
The Board may take an order enforcing all the provisions of its order except that directing it to bargain with the C. I. O. local, and to post notice to that effect. We shall defer enforcing that provision until after it has passed upon the petitions of March 18, 1942. The question should be decided as of the date of the hearing, not as. of the date of the petitions, for the remedy will speak as of the time when it takes effect.
Cause remanded in accordance with the foregoing.

Question: Did the court's interpretation of the substantial evidence rule support the government? For example, "such evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion" or "more than a mere scintilla". This issue is present only when the court indicates that it is using this doctrine, rather than when the court is merely discussing the evidence to determine whether the evidence supports the position of the appellant or respondent.
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: D