An automotive fuel systems company lost its bid for an immediate court order to halt a National Labor Relations Board case based on its constitutional challenge to the agency.
Yapp USA Automotive Systems Inc. is unlikely to win its claims targeting protections shielding NLRB members and administrative law judges from being fired, Judge Laurie Michelson, an Obama appointee to the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, ruled Monday.
The company also probably won’t prevail on its arguments contesting the board’s authority to order employers to pay for the economic consequences of their illegal activity, Michelson held.
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