Court Opinion

ID: 9463069
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:57:28.568132+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:55.424801
License: Public Domain

*802ANTHONY M. KENNEDY
(concurring).
The union did not appeal the district court’s judgment under section 301 ordering rescission of the collective bargaining agreement. The validity of a collective bargaining agreement is a question which both the district court and the Labor Board may have concurrent jurisdiction to decide. Here the Board refused to give any weight at all to the district court’s decision, claiming that its own determinations always take precedence over inconsistent district court decisions. I believe that facts necessarily decided in either forum should be given at least some collateral estoppel effect in subsequent proceedings in the other forum. Thus I concur in our denial of enforcement of the Board’s order.