SMITHFIELD PACKING CO., INC. v. N.L.R.B.

Nos. 06-1541, 06-1652.

510 F.3d 507 (2007)

SMITHFIELD PACKING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent. National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner, v. Smithfield Packing Company, Incorporated, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gregory Branch Robertson, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Smithfield Packing Company, Incorporated. Heather Stacy Beard, Office of the General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for the Board. ON BRIEF: Kimberlee W. DeWitt, Kurt G. Larkin, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Smithfield Packing Company, Incorporated. Ronald Meisburg, General Counsel, John E. Higgins, Jr., Deputy General Counsel, John H. Ferguson, Associate General Counsel, Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate General Counsel, Steven L. Sokolow, Deputy Associate General Counsel, David Habenstreit, Supervisory Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, DC, for the Board.

Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, DUNCAN, Circuit Judge, and Raymond A. JACKSON, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Petition for review granted; cross-application for enforcement granted in part and denied in part by published opinion. Chief Judge WILLIAMS wrote the opinion, in which Judge DUNCAN and Judge JACKSON joined.

OPINION

WILLIAMS, Chief Judge:

Smithfield Packing Company, Incorporated ("Smithfield") petitions for review of an order of the National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") finding Smithfield in violation...

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