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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Unfair Labor Practice Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1997

printed as Table 7 · source pages 132–134 · nlrb1997_p0132_t0

Stitched from pp. 132–134.

Method and stage of dispositionAll C casesCA casesCB casesCC casesCD casesCE casesCG casesCP cases
Method and stage of dispositionNumberPercent of total closedPercent of total methodNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closed
Total number of cases closed32,341100.00.024,624100.06,770100.0598100.0176100.048100.024100.0101100.0
Agreement of the parties11,54635.7100.09,98740.51,17917.430851.521.11531.21354.14241.5
Informal settlement11,48435.599.59,93940.31,16717.230651.121.11531.21354.14241.5
Before issuance of complaint8,55626.574.17,33829.891213.424641.1[2]1327.01250.03534.6
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing2,8478.824.72,52310.22523.76010.021.124.114.176.9
After hearing opened, before issuance of administrative law judge's decision810.30.7780.330.000000
Formal settlement620.20.5480.1120.120.30000
Before opening of hearing360.10.3310.130.020.30000
Stipulated decision50.00.050.0000000
Consent decree310.10.3260.130.020.30000
After hearing opened260.10.2170.090.100000
Stipulated decision00.00000000
Consent decree260.10.2170.090.100000
Compliance with8012.5100.06882.7861.2172.842.2510.4010.9
Administrative law judge's decision120.01.5120.0000000
Board decision5191.664.84361.7660.981.331.7510.4010.9
Adopting administrative law judge's decision (no exceptions filed)3070.938.32541.0460.640.621.10010.9
Contested2120.726.51820.7200.240.610.5510.400
Circuit court of appeals decree2700.833.72400.9200.291.510.5000
Supreme Court action00.00000000
Withdrawal10,04331.1100.07,87931.91,92028.317529.201633.3729.14645.5
Before issuance of complaint9,79930.397.67,67131.11,89227.916928.2[2]1633.3729.14443.5
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing2340.72.31990.8270.361.000021.9
After hearing opened, before administrative law judge's decision100.00.190.010.000000
After administrative law judge's decision, before Board decision00.00000000
After Board or court decision00.00000000
Dismissal9,71930.1100.06,00824.33,58352.99816.321.11225.0416.61211.8
Before issuance of complaint9,45629.297.35,79923.53,53752.29515.8[2]918.7416.61211.8
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing1160.41.2780.3330.4021.136.200
After hearing opened, before administrative law judge's decision70.00.170.0000000
By administrative law judge's decision00.00000000
By Board decision1370.41.41210.4130.130.50000
Adopting administrative law judge's decision (no exceptions filed)300.10.3280.120.000000
Contested1070.31.1930.3110.130.50000
By circuit court of appeals decree30.00.030.0000000
By Supreme Court action00.00000000
10(k) actions (see Table 7A for details of dispositions)1680.50.000016895.4000
Otherwise (compliance with order of administrative law judge or Board not achieved—firm went out of business)640.20.0620.220.000000

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  1. 1 See Table 8 for summary of disposition by stage. See Glossary of terms for definitions.
  2. 2 CD cases closed in this stage are processed as jurisdictional disputes under Sec. 10(k) of the Act. See Table 7A.

157 of 157 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 132. Grid is 18 columns: stub + "All C cases" (Number, Percent of total closed, Percent of total method) + seven case-type panels (CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CG, CP), each with Number and Percent of total closed. Doubtful cell: row "Before issuance of complaint", column "CD cases / Number", is printed as what reads "(2)" rather than a plain figure, and its adjacent percent cell is a dash rule. The row's components sum exactly to the All C total without any CD contribution (7,338 + 912 + 246 + 13 + 12 + 35 = 8,556), so the intended value is almost certainly 0; the characters are transcribed as they appear on the scan. Suspected misprint: row "Total number of cases closed", column "All C cases / Percent of total method", is printed as "0.0" where the other method-group header rows carry 100.0; transcribed as printed. Dash rules ("——") used for nil percents are rendered as empty cells throughout, per instruction. The CP percent cell on the "After hearing opened, before issuance of administrative law judge's decision" row carries only faint scan speckle plus a dash and is read as empty. The crop is cut off immediately below the "Compliance with" row (a double rule follows), so the sub-rows of that section and the rest of the table, including any footnotes, are not on this image. The caption's superscript 1 therefore has no corresponding footnote text in the crop. The row label "After hearing opened, before issuance of administrative law judge's decision" is printed in italics across two lines and joined here; "Compliance with" is followed by leader dots and may have been intended to end with a colon.

p. 133. Grid is 18 columns: stub + All C cases (Number / Percent of total closed / Percent of total method) + two columns (Number, Percent of total closed) for each of CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CG, CP. This is a "—Continued" page: the opening rows (Administrative law judge's decision, Board decision, Adopting..., Contested, Circuit court of appeals decree, Supreme Court action) are detail lines belonging to a section whose heading/total row is printed on the preceding page and is not in this crop. No footnote texts are printed below the table on this page; the marker "1" in the caption refers to a footnote carried on an earlier page of the table. Cells I want to flag: - CD cases, Number column, rows "Before issuance of complaint" under Withdrawal and under Dismissal: printed as "(2)" on the baseline. Given the row arithmetic (the other CD detail figures sum exactly to the CD totals of 0 and 2 without it), this parenthesized "(2)" appears to be a footnote reference rather than a count, but I transcribed it exactly as printed. - "By Board decision" / All C cases, Percent of total closed: the glyphs read "0 4" with no decimal point visible in this 1-bit scan (all neighbouring cells in that column carry one). Transcribed as "0.4"; read as "04" if literal glyphs are wanted. - "After hearing opened, before administrative law judge's decision" under Dismissal, All C Number: a stray leader dot sits just left of the figure; the value is 7. Possible misprint in the source (not corrected): under Dismissal, the five detail rows sum to 9,716 in the All C Number column and 6,005 in the CA Number column, three short of the printed totals 9,719 and 6,008. All other columns and the whole Withdrawal block reconcile exactly, as do the cross-case-type sums of every row. All dash rules ("——") and blank cells are given as "".

p. 134. This crop is the tail of a continued table (the caption reads "—Continued"), so it shows only the last four body rows; the earlier rows of the table are on the preceding page. The column headings are reprinted on this page, so they are transcribed here. 18 columns: stub plus Number/Percent-of-total-closed/Percent-of-total-method for All C cases, then Number/Percent-of-total-closed for each of CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CG and CP cases. Scan specks: a stray dot sits just right of the "3" in the All C cases Number cell of "By circuit court of appeals decree", and a dot precedes the "0" in the CC cases Number cell of "By Supreme Court action" (reads ".0"); both are printing/scan artifacts, and the values are 3 and 0 respectively. A loose dot also appears under the CD cases Percent cell between the "10(k) actions" and "Otherwise" rows. Dash rules ("——") fill the percent cells opposite zero counts; these are transcribed as empty cells. In the "Otherwise" row the CD cases Percent cell is faint and may be blank rather than a dash rule, but either way it is recorded as empty. Footnote 2 is printed under the table but its marker does not appear on any row or heading in this crop; it presumably attaches to a row on the preceding page.

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Source page 132 of NLRB FY1997 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1997, p. 132.
Source page 133 of NLRB FY1997 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1997, p. 133.
Source page 134 of NLRB FY1997 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1997, p. 134.

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.