Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2010-07-01 14:15:52+00
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09-1038-ag(L), 09-1646-ag(XAP)
County Waste of Ulster, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board

                           UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                               FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

                                     SUMMARY ORDER

RULINGS BY SUM M ARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A
SUM M ARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERM ITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY
FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT’S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN
CITING A SUM M ARY O RDER IN A DOCUM ENT FILED W ITH THIS COURT, A PARTY M UST CITE
EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (W ITH THE NOTATION
“SUM M ARY ORDER”). A PARTY CITING A SUM M ARY ORDER M UST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY
PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

        At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at the
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of New York, on the 1st day of
July, two thousand ten.

Present:
            WILFRED FEINBERG,
            JOHN M. WALKER, JR.,
            ROBERT A. KATZMANN,
                        Circuit Judges.
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COUNTY WASTE OF ULSTER, LLC,

               Petitioner-Cross-Respondent,

                      v.                                   No. 09-1038-ag(L), 09-1646-ag(XAP)

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD,

               Respondent-Cross-Petitioner, and

LOCAL 108, LIUNA,

               Intervenor-Respondent.

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For Petitioner-Cross-Respondent:      STUART WEINBERGER , Goldberg & Weinberger, New
                                      York, NY

For Respondent-Cross-Petitioner:      AMY H. GINN , Attorney (Julie B. Broido, Supervisory
                                      Attorney, Ronald Meisburg, General Counsel, John E.
                                      Higgins, Jr., Deputy General Counsel, John H. Ferguson,
                                      Associate General Counsel, Linda Dreeben, Deputy
                                      Associate General Counsel, of counsel), National Labor
                                      Relations Board, Washington, DC

For Intervenor-Respondent:            TAMIR W. ROSENBLUM , Mason Tenders District Council of
                                      Greater New York (Joseph J. Vitale, Cohen, Weiss and
                                      Simon LLP, of counsel), New York, NY

       Petition for Review and Cross-Application for Enforcement of an Order of the National
Labor Relations Board.

       ON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and

DECREED that the petition for review is GRANTED, the NLRB’s cross-application for

enforcement is DENIED, the decision and order of the NLRB are VACATED, and the case is

REMANDED for further proceedings.

       Petitioner County Waste of Ulster, LLC petitions for review of the February 11, 2009

decision of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) that County Waste violated section

8(a)(2) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(a)(2). Respondent NLRB cross-

applies for enforcement of the NLRB order. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the facts

and procedural history of the case.

       The NLRB decision at issue in this case was issued by a two-member panel at a time

when the NLRB had only two members. On June 17, 2010, the Supreme Court held that a

delegee group of the NLRB could not continue to exercise its delegated authority once the

group’s and the NLRB’s membership fell to two, New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB, 560 U.S. ---,

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No. 08-11457, slip. op. at 13-14 (June 17, 2010), abrogating this Court’s decision in Snell Island

SNF LLC v. NLRB, 568 F.3d 410 (2d Cir. 2009). See NLRB v. Talmadge Park, --- F.3d ---, slip.

op. at 2-3 (2d Cir. June 23, 2010). Accordingly, the two-member panel of the NLRB did not

have the authority to enter a decision and order in this case.

       For the foregoing reason, County Waste’s petition for review of the NLRB’s decision and

order is hereby GRANTED, the cross-application for enforcement is DENIED, the decision and

order of the NLRB are VACATED, and the case is REMANDED for further proceedings.

                                               FOR THE COURT:
                                               CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK

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