Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-06-24 15:17:15+00
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United States Court of Appeals
                          FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
                                   ___________

                                   No. 09-1194
                                   ___________

National Labor Relations Board,         *
                                        *
             Petitioner,                *
                                        *
International Brotherhood of Electrical *
Workers,                                * Application for Enforcement
                                        * of an Order of the National
             Intervenor,                * Labor Relations Board.
                                        *
      v.                                *     [UNPUBLISHED]
                                        *
American Directional Boring, Inc.,      *
                                        *
             Respondent.                *
                                  ___________

                             Submitted: December 17, 2009
                                Filed: June 24, 2010
                                 ___________

Before LOKEN, Chief Judge,* BENTON, Circuit Judge, and VIKEN,** District Judge.
                               ___________

PER CURIAM.

      *
       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.
        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. ___, 2010 WL 2400089, at *8
(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.
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