NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.

NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 12–13, 1939 Decided February 27, 1939
Full case name	National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation
Citations	306 U.S. 240 (more) 59 S. Ct. 490; 83 L. Ed. 627; 1939 U.S. LEXIS 1092; 1 Lab. Cas. (CCH) ¶ 17,042; 123 A.L.R. 599; 4 L.R.R.M. 515
Case history
Prior	Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. v. NLRB, 98 F.2d 375 (7th Cir. 1938); cert. granted, 305 U.S. 590 (1938).
Holding
National Labor Relations Act does not confer authority to order an employer to reinstate workers fired after illegal activity, even if the employer's own illegal actions triggered that activity.
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Pierce Butler Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter
Case opinions
Majority	Hughes, joined by McReynolds, Butler, Roberts
Concurrence	Stone
Dissent	Reed, joined by Black
Frankfurter took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
National Labor Relations Act

National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation, 306 U.S. 240 (1939), is a United States Supreme Court case on labor laws in which the Court held that the National Labor Relations Board had no authority to order an employer to reinstate workers fired after a sit-down strike, even if the employer's illegal actions triggered that strike.^[1]