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Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1992; and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936 Through 1992
| Fiscal Year 1992 | July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1992 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1992 | |||||||||
| 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 | Number | Percent | |
| Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals | 180 | 149 | 28 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| On petitions for review and/or enforcement | 161 | 133 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 10,338 | 100.0 |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 118 | 98 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 73.7 | 80.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6,794 | 65.7 |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8.3 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 1,415 | 13.7 |
| Remanded to Board | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 508 | 4.9 |
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 206 | 2.0 |
| Board orders set aside | 18 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11.3 | 8.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 1,415 | 13.7 |
| On petitions for contempt | 19 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 0.0 | ||||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 68.8 | 66.7 | ||||
| Court orders denying petition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 33.3 | ||||
| Contempt petitions withdrawn without compliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 251 | 100.0 | |||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 60.2 | ||||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7.2 | ||||
| Board orders set aside | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 44 | 17.5 | |||
| Remanded to Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 7.6 | ||||
| Remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.4 | ||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
- 1 "Proceedings" are comparable to "cases" reported in annual reports prior to fiscal 1964. This term more accurately describes the data inasmuch as a single "proceeding" often includes more than one "case." See Glossary of terms for definitions.
- 2 A proceeding in which the Board had entered an order dismissing the complaint and the charging party appealed such dismissal in the courts of appeals.
- 3 The Board appeared as "amicus curiae" in zero cases.
47 of 56 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 185. The table has 12 columns: an unlabeled stub, five "Number of proceedings" columns and four "Percentages" columns under the spanner "Fiscal Year 1992", and two columns (Number, Percent) under "July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1992". The stub column has no printed heading, so header cell 0 is empty at every level. Cells printed as a dash rule (em-dash) are rendered as "" throughout: the four percentage columns and both cumulative columns in the "Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals" row; the "Vs. both employers and unions", "Board dismissal", "Number" and "Percent" columns in the "On petitions for contempt" block (its six rows); the "Vs. unions only", "Vs. both employers and unions" and "Board dismissal" columns in the Supreme Court block. Doubtful glyphs, all resolved by arithmetic and context: (a) in "Board orders set aside" (first occurrence, review/enforcement block), the "Board dismissal" percentage is printed as "50 0" with a faint/dropped decimal point; it is transcribed 50.0, which matches 1 of 2 and the 50.0 printed in the row above. (b) The first stub label reads "U.S courts of appeals" on the scan, the period after S being faint; transcribed "U.S. courts of appeals" to match the parallel Supreme Court label. (c) The percentages heading "Vs. employers only" carries a stray speck after "only" that is a scan artifact, not a footnote marker. Internal checks pass: 161 + 19 = 180 across all proceedings columns; the five review/enforcement detail rows sum to 161 / 133 / 25; the five contempt detail rows sum to 19 / 16 / 3; the cumulative Number column sums to 10,338 for review/enforcement and 251 for the Supreme Court block. The cumulative Number value 1,415 is printed for both "Board orders affirmed with modification" and "Board orders set aside"; that repetition is as printed and is consistent with the column total. The Supreme Court cumulative Percent column sums to 100.1 as printed (rounding); no correction made. The right-hand portion of the "Fiscal Year 1992" spanner carries an isolated ink speck above the "Percentages" area; it is not text.
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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.