NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1994 › Special Litigation Involving NLRB; Outcome of Proceedings in Which Court Decisions Issued in Fiscal Year 1994
| 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 | 27 | 23 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| NLRB-initiated actions or interventions | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To enforce subpoena | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To defend Board's jurisdiction | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To prevent conflict between NLRA and other statutes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Action by other parties | 22 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| To review nonfinal orders | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To restrain NLRB from | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Proceeding in R case | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Proceeding in unfair labor practice case | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Enforcing subpoena | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| To compel NLRB to | 14 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Take action in "C" case | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Issue complaint | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Take action in R case | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other—Pay fees under EAJA | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Objection to Board's Proof of Claim | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NLRA preempts State Regulation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Backpay returned as voidable preference | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
45 of 116 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 159. The table is printed sideways on the page: despite the stated upright orientation, the image is rotated 90 degrees, which lowers legibility of the single-digit cells in the right-hand (narrow) column groups. Nine cells sit at the limit of legibility at this resolution and are reported at reduced confidence. In each case the digit given is the one demanded by the printed subtotals, by the printed Total—all courts column (Total = appeals + district + bankruptcy), and by the identity Number decided = Upholding + Contrary, all three of which hold exactly in every legible row and column of the table: (a) "Action by other parties" under In district courts (10, 9, 1) and under In bankruptcy courts (1, 0, 1); (b) "To restrain NLRB from" under In district courts / Upholding Board position (3); (c) In bankruptcy courts / Number decided at "Other" (1) and at "Backpay returned as voidable preference" (1). In my raw visual pass those cells scanned as 0, and the two bankruptcy Number decided 1s appeared to sit nearer the "To compel NLRB to" and FOIA rows; since In bankruptcy courts / Upholding Board position is zero throughout, that group's Number decided column must equal its Contrary column row for row, which is how the two 1s were placed. Every other cell is arithmetically self-consistent: section subtotals equal the sum of their indented sub-rows, each row's Number decided equals Upholding plus Contrary, and each row's Total—all courts equals the sum of the three court groups. No printed total appears to be misprinted. Rows "Objection to Board's Proof of Claim" and "Backpay returned as voidable preference" are arithmetically interchangeable between the courts-of-appeals and bankruptcy groups (either assignment satisfies all totals); the assignment shown follows the visual read, which placed the courts-of-appeals entry on the "Objection" row and the bankruptcy entry on the "Backpay" row in all three passes. The footnote line runs along the bottom edge of the crop; its text is legible but sits very close to the trim, so a trailing word cannot be fully ruled out.
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.