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NLRB v. BAPTIST HOSPITAL, INC.

No. 78-223.

442 U.S. 773 (1979)

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD ET AL. v. BAPTIST HOSPITAL, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 20, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norton J. Come argued the cause for petitioner National Labor Relations Board. With him on the brief were Solicitor General McCree, John S. Irving, Linda Sher, and David F. Zorensky. Laurence Gold argued the cause for intervenor Local 150-T Service Employees International Union. With him on the briefs were Lester Asher, J. Albert Woll, and George Kaufmann.

Fred W. Elarbee argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was David M. Vaughan.*

William Francis Ford and Samuel Dunbar Hewlett filed a brief for the Hospital Corporation of America as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question of the validity of an order of the National Labor Relations Board (Board) prohibiting respondent, Baptist Hospital (Hospital), from enforcing any rule against solicitation by employees "on behalf of any labor organization during their nonworking time in any area of its hospital other than immediate patient care areas."

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