COFFMAN v. QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

No. 17-17413.

895 F.3d 717 (2018)

Jill Hawken COFFMAN, Regional Director of Region 20 of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner-Appellee, v. QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald J. Holland (argued), Philip Shecter , and Ellen Bronchetti , DLA Piper LLP, Menlo Park, California, for Respondent-Appellant.

Rebecca J. Johnston (argued), Attorney; Richard J. Lussier , Supervisory Attorney; Elinor L. Merberg , Assistant General Counsel; Jayme L. Sophir , Associate General Counsel; Peter B. Robb , General Counsel; National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D.C.; for Petitioner-Appellee.

Before: Mary M. Schroeder and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Miranda M. Du, District Judge.


OPINION

It is a well-settled principle of labor relations law that an employer cannot start unconditional bargaining with a union and then quit when negotiations do not go well. In this case, a Regional Director ("Director") of the National Labor Relations Board ("Board") believed the employer did just that. The...

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