Court Opinion

ID: 9469358
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:38:17.102406+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:20.801191
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ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
Among the employer’s numerous exceptions to the Regional Director’s investiga*1170tive report was a claim that an influential member of the bargaining unit had been paid to wear a union campaign button on the eve of the recognition election. This allegation, supported by two affidavits, was based on a statement attributed to the employee who wore the button. In view of this charge of bribery, I am persuaded that the employer’s “well-pleaded allegations established factual questions which should not have been resolved upon the record appearing before the Board at the time it granted the General Counsel’s motion for summary judgment.” Kusan Manufacturing Co. v. NLRB, 673 F.2d 150,151 (6th Cir. 1982) (per curiam). Because the employer offered a substantial and material exception supported by a specific offer of proof, I concur in the decision to remand. I do so, however, with the understanding that the rule we adopt in this case is not inflexible and would not require the Board to examine the investigative file where the issues presented are strictly questions of law or where the exceptions are not supported by specific offers of proof.