Court Opinion

ID: 9486542
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 11:51:45.838768+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:51:47.002500
License: Public Domain

SILBE RMAN, Circuit Judge,

concurring:

It is actually very rare, much more rare than our reported cases indicate, for this court to grant a petition for review of a Board order — or, indeed, any agency order— based on insufficient evidence. Our review, both in theory and in practice, is quite deferential. Since most of these sorts of cases are affirmed by unpublished orders and memo-randa, whereas a grant of a petition (reversal of an agency) is always accompanied by a published opinion, practitioners — particularly those who practice before the Board — might gain the wrong impression. One issue in this multi-issue case, the Nastasi firing, fell into this virtual “purple cow” category.