Opinion ID: 197361
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Heading: Reshooting the Scene.

Text: A. Reshooting the Scene. It is well settled that an employer defending against 15 an unfair labor practice charge cannot relitigate issues which were (or could have been) contested in the underlying representation proceeding. See 29 C.F.R. 102.65(e)(1), 102.67(f); see also Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 146, 162 (1941); Fall River Sav. Bank, 649 F.2d at 58. There is an exception to this salutary rule for extraordinary circumstances, usually embodying the emergence of evidence previously undiscovered (or, at least, unavailable). See 29 C.F.R. 102.65(e)(1);3 see also Fall River Sav. Bank, 649 F.2d at 58; East Mich. Care Corp., 246 NLRB 458, 459 (1979), enforced without opinion, 655 F.2d 721 (6th Cir. 1981). But this exception should be invoked sparingly, and a court should hesitate to second-guess the Board's assessment that particular circumstances do not qualify for it.