NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1987 › Special Litigation Involving NLRB; Outcome of Proceedings in Which Court Decisions Issued in Fiscal Year 1987
| Type of litigation | Number of proceedings | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of litigation | Total—all courts | In courts of appeals | In district courts | In bankruptcy courts | ||||||||
| Type of litigation | Number decided | Court determination | Number decided | Court determination | Number decided | Court determination | Number decided | Court determination | ||||
| Type of litigation | Number decided | Upholding Board position | Contrary to Board position | Number decided | Upholding Board position | Contrary to Board position | Number decided | Upholding Board position | Contrary to Board position | Number decided | Upholding Board position | Contrary to Board position |
| Totals—all types | 35 | 31 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| NLRB-initiated actions or interventions | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To enforce subpoena | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To prevent conflict between NLRA and 301 suite | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Action by other parties | 31 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| To restrain NLRB from | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Proceeding in R case | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Proceeding in unfair labor practice case | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| To compel NLRB to | 24 | 20 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Issue complaint | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Take action in R case | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Comply with Freedom of Information Act | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pay fees under Equal Access to Justice Act | 9 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pay fees in FOIA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Comply with third-party subpoena | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
40 of 85 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 260. Grid is 13 columns: stub plus four three-column panels (Total—all courts, In courts of appeals, In district courts, In bankruptcy courts), each with "Number decided", "Upholding Board position", "Contrary to Board position". Suspected misprint, transcribed as printed: the rows "Action by other parties" and "To restrain NLRB from" do not reconcile with the rest of the table in columns 3 through 9. As printed, "Action by other parties" reads 31, 27, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 5, 5, 0 and "To restrain NLRB from" reads 7, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0. But "Totals—all types" minus "NLRB-initiated actions or interventions" gives 31, 27, 4, 11, 8, 3, 15, 14, 1, 5, 5, 0 for "Action by other parties", and the two sub-rows "Proceeding in R case" plus "Proceeding in unfair labor practice case" sum to 7, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 5, 5, 0 for "To restrain NLRB from". In other words, the figures printed in columns 4 through 12 of the "Action by other parties" line are exactly the subtotal that belongs on the "To restrain NLRB from" line, and the "To restrain NLRB from" line carries zeros there instead. This looks like a typesetting error in the source, not a reading error, but a user should treat those two rows' columns 4-12 as doubtful. Everything else reconciles exactly: the six sub-rows under "To compel NLRB to" sum to that row in all twelve columns, and "NLRB-initiated actions or interventions" equals its two sub-rows. Row 4's label is printed "To prevent conflict between NLRA and 301 suite"; "suite" is almost certainly a misprint for "suits", but it is transcribed as printed. The scan is a worn letterpress impression in which many dotted i's have lost their dots (e.g. "litigation", "determination" print as "lıtıgatıon", "determınatıon"); these are rendered as normal letters. In the "Totals—all types" row the figure in the Total—all courts "Upholding Board position" column is a slightly broken 31, read with confidence as 31 since it reconciles with 35 minus 4. No caption, running head or page number is included; the crop shows the full table body and the single footnote.
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.