Opinion ID: 407929
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Consolidation and Proceedings in the District Court

Text: 18 On December 10, 1979, following our remand of Jai Alai I, the court consolidated the State's two cases for all further proceedings. On January 25, 1980, the employers, Volusia and Florida Jai Alai, moved the court to appear as amici curiae. On February 27, 1980, the court granted their motion. Both parties, the State and the Board, then moved for summary judgment, presenting the following issues: 19 (1) whether the district court had subject matter jurisdiction to consider the State's claim that the Board's representation election order was invalid; 20 (2) whether the Board abused the discretion accorded by section 14(c)(1) of the Act by refusing to decline to assert jurisdiction over players and pari-mutuel workers in the jai alai industry in the face of its policy not to exercise jurisdiction over pari-mutuel employees in the dog and horse racing industries; 21 (3) whether application of the Act to the pari-mutuel jai alai industry in Florida was barred by the tenth amendment. 22 The district court carefully considered these issues in a memorandum opinion issued on September 30, 1980. Florida Board of Business Regulation v. NLRB, 497 F.Supp. 599 (M.D.Fla.1980). The court concluded that it had subject matter jurisdiction, that the Board had not abused its section 14(c)(1) discretion by asserting jurisdiction over the jai alai players and the pari-mutuel employees, and that the tenth amendment did not bar application of the Act to labor disputes in the jai alai industry. 23 In this appeal, the Board questions the district court's subject matter jurisdiction; the State asks us to reverse the district court on the section 14(c)(1) and tenth amendment issues. We will consider seriatim the three issues decided by the district court.