AMERICAN HOSP. ASS'N v. N.L.R.B.

Nos. 89-2604, 89-2605 and 89-2622.

899 F.2d 651 (1990)

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, James M. Stephens, Mary M. Cracraft, John E. Higgins, Jr., Dennis M. Devaney, and John C. Truesdale, Defendants, and American Nurses Association, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, Intervening Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 11, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian W. Bulger (argued), Laurence H. Lenz, Jr., Michael W. Duffee, Gail A. Chaney, Daniel S. Kaufman, Katten Muchin & Zavis, Chicago, Illinois; Benjamin R. Civiletti (argued), Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Maryland, for plaintiff-appellee.

Eric G. Moskowitz, Diane Rosse, Norton J. Come, Linda R. Sher, N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., William G. Kocal, N.L.R.B., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Joel A. D'Alba, Marvin Gittler, Barry M. Bennett, Asher, Gittler & Greenfield, Peggy A. Hillman, Chicago, Ill., Laurence Gold, David Silberman, Michael Fanning, Richard Griffin, George Kaufman, Woody N. Peterson, Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin, Laurence J. Cohen, Victoria Bor, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Counts, Washington, D.C., for intervenors-appellants.

Lawrence Rosenzweig, Santa Monica, Cal., for amicus curiae, Union of American Physicians and Dentists.

E.J. Holland, Jr., Peggy F. Schmitt, Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Kansas City, Mo., for amicus curiae, Missouri Hosp. Ass'n.

Lawrence R. Arnold, Weissburg & Aronson, San Francisco, Cal., for amicus curiae, Federation of American Health Systems.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The National Labor Relations Board, joined by intervening unions, appeals from an order by the district court enjoining the first significant substantive exertion of the rulemaking powers conferred on the Board, almost half a century ago, by section 6 of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 156. By "substantive," we mean other than jurisdictional, procedural, or remedial.

Section 9(b) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. § 159(b...

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