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Miscellaneous Litigation Involving NLRB; Outcome of Proceedings in Which Court Decisions Issued in Fiscal Year 1971

printed as Table 21 · source page 208 · nlrb1971_p0208_t0

Type of litigationNumber of proceedings
Type of litigationTotal—all courtsIn courts of appealsIn district courts
Type of litigationNumber decidedCourt determinationNumber decidedCourt determinationNumber decidedCourt determination
Type of litigationNumber decidedUpholding Board positionContrary to Board positionNumber decidedUpholding Board positionContrary to Board positionNumber decidedUpholding Board positionContrary to Board position
Totals—all types433581711626242
NLRB-initiated actions541541010
To enforce subpena220220000
To restrain dissipation of assets by respondent000000000
To defend Board's jurisdiction321211110
Action by other parties3027397221201
To restrain NLRB from1211111011101
Proceeding in R case871110761
Proceeding in unfair labor practice case110000110
Proceeding in backpay case110000110
Other220000220
To compel NLRB to1816286210100
Issue complaint770330440
Seek injunction101101000
Take action in R case541211330
Other550220330
Other844413431

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91 of 106 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 208. Ten columns: the stub plus three panels (Total—all courts, In courts of appeals, In district courts), each with Number decided / Upholding Board position / Contrary to Board position. "Number of proceedings" spans all nine data columns; "Type of litigation" spans all four heading levels. No footnotes are printed under the table. Doubtful row — "NLRB-initiated actions": the four cells transcribed as 5 (In courts of appeals, Number decided), 4 (In courts of appeals, Upholding Board position), 0 (In district courts, Number decided) and 1 (In district courts, Upholding Board position) are reported exactly as they read on the scan, but they do not cohere. (a) The district panel is internally impossible as printed: 0 decided yet 1 upholding. (b) The row's three detail lines (To enforce subpena, To restrain dissipation of assets by respondent, To defend Board's jurisdiction) sum to 4 / 3 / 1 in the appeals panel and 1 / 1 / 0 in the district panel. (c) The "Totals—all types" line also implies 4 / 3 / 1 and 1 / 1 / 0 for this row (17 − 9 − 4 = 4; 11 − 7 − 1 = 3; 26 − 21 − 4 = 1; 24 − 20 − 3 = 1). So either the source misprinted this summary line or these small digits were misread at the available resolution; I could not magnify the crop to settle it. Every other row in the table sums correctly, both down into its detail lines and across the appeals + district panels into the total panel. The first three cells of this same row (5, 4, 1 in Total—all courts) do agree with its detail lines and with the column totals, so only the appeals and district figures are in question. Spelling "subpena" and the hyphen in "NLRB-initiated" are as printed. A small speck sits just right of 43 in the "Totals—all types" Total—all courts column; it is scanner dirt, not a footnote marker, and has been omitted. Row labels wrapping over two lines ("To restrain dissipation of assets by respondent", "Proceeding in unfair labor practice case") have been joined. The final "Other" row is set at the outermost stub indent, level with "NLRB-initiated actions" and "Action by other parties", so it is a third top-level category and not part of the "To compel NLRB to" group (the "Other" immediately above it is).

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Source page 208 of NLRB FY1971 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1971, p. 208.

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.