NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1969 › Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1969; and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936-69
Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1969; and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936-69
| Fiscal year 1969 | July 5, 1935—June 30, 1969 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1935—June 30, 1969 | |||||||||
| Total | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissed | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Number | Percent | |
| Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals | 380 | 316 | 44 | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| On petitions for review and/or enforcements | 363 | 305 | 39 | 9 | 10 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 4,015 | 100.0 |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 208 | 161 | 29 | 8 | 10 | 52.8 | 74.3 | 88.9 | 100.0 | 2,329 | 58.0 |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 83 | 78 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25.6 | 12.8 | 803 | 20.0 | ||
| Remanded to Board | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3.9 | 10.3 | 165 | 4.1 | ||
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | 50 | 1.3 | |||
| Board orders set aside | 52 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 16.4 | 2.6 | 11.1 | 668 | 16.6 | |
| On petitions for contempt | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | |||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 54.5 | 40.0 | 100.0 | |||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 36.4 | 60.0 | ||||
| Court orders denying petition | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | |||||
| Proceeding decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 180 | 100.0 | ||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 83.3 | 100.0 | 111 | 61.6 | ||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 14 | 7.7 | |||
| Board orders set aside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 15.5 | ||||
| Remanded to Board | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56.0 | 12 | 6.7 | |||
| Remanded to courts of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6.7 | ||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.6 | ||||
| Contempt cases remanded to courts of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.6 | ||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.6 | ||||
- 1 "Proceedings" are comparable to "cases" reported in annual reports prior to fiscal year 1964. This term more accurately describes the data inasmuch as a single "proceeding" often includes more than one "case." See "Glossary" for definitions of terms.
- 2 A proceeding in which the Board had entered an order dismissing the complaint and the charging party appealed such dismissal in the court of appeals.
56 of 65 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 247. 12 columns: stub, 5 "Number of proceedings" columns, 4 "Percentages" columns, and the 2 cumulative columns. The stub has no printed heading. Dash rules ("----") throughout the percentage and cumulative columns are rendered as "". Doubtful cells: 1. Row "Board orders set aside" (first, courts-of-appeals section), column Percentages / Vs. employers only: printed as "16 4" with a visible gap and no legible decimal point in the scan. Transcribed as "16.4"; this is supported by the column, which then sums to 100.0 (52.8 + 25.6 + 3.9 + 1.3 + 16.4). 2. Supreme Court section, column Percentages / Vs. employers only: the printed figures do not reconcile with the counts in that section. The section base is 9 proceedings vs. employers only, so "Board orders affirmed in full" (3 of 9) should be 33.3 and "Remanded to Board" (5 of 9) should be 55.6; the page reads 83.3 and 56.0, and the column therefore sums to 150.4 rather than 100.0. Both are transcribed as printed. The leading digit of "83.3" is legible as an 8 at this resolution, but a misprint (or a damaged 3) is likely. Spelling: in "On petitions for contempt" and "Court orders holding respondent in contempt" the word renders in the scan with what looks like an "m" ("comtempt"). Transcribed as "contempt", matching the capitalised "Contempt cases ..." rows lower in the same table. Likewise the dotless "i" the scan produces in "petitions", "unions" and "dismissed" is treated as a scan artifact, not as printed text. All other internal checks reconcile: the component rows sum to their section totals in every count column, and the cumulative Number and Percent columns sum to 4,015 / 100.0 and 180 / 100.0 respectively.
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Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.