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Litigation for enforcement and/or review of Board orders

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	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	Fiscal year 1973	July 5, 1935 – June 30, 1973	July 5, 1935 – June 30, 1973
	Number of proceedings	Number of proceedings	Number of proceedings	Number of proceedings	Number of proceedings	Percentages	Percentages	Percentages	Percentages	Number	Percent
	Total	Vs. employers only	Vs. unions only	Vs. both employers and unions	Board dismissal	Vs. employers only	Vs. unions only	Vs. both employers and unions	Board dismissal
Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals	388	307	53	1	5
On petitions for review and/or enforcement	350	292	52	1	5	100	100	100	100	5,399	100
Board orders affirmed in full	252	206	44	0	2	70.5	84.6		40	3,314	61.4
Board orders affirmed with modification	37	34	3	0	0	11.6	5.7			957	17.7
Remanded to Board	17	12	4	1	0	4.1	7.7	100	60	233	4.3
Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded	2	3	0	0	0	0.6				77	1.4
Board orders set aside	42	37	4	0	1	12.7	7.7		100	818	15.2
On petitions for contempt	18	15	3	0	0	100	100
Compliance after filing of petition, before court order	13	11	2	0	0	73.3	66.7
Court orders holding respondent in contempt	4	3	1	0	0	26.7	33.3
Court orders denying petition	1	1	0	0	0
Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court	6	4	2	0	0	100	100
Board orders affirmed in full (SCOTUS)	3	1	2	0	0	25	100
Remanded to Board (SCOTUS)	3	3	0	0	0	75

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Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.