NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1999 › Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1999; and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936 through 1999
| Fiscal Year 1999 | July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1999 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1999 | |||||||||
| 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 | 165 | 155 | 10 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| On petitions for review and/or enforcement | 132 | 126 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 11,369 | 100.0 |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 92 | 87 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 69.0 | 83.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7,497 | 65.9 |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,521 | 13.4 |
| Remanded to Board | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 563 | 4.9 |
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 247 | 2.2 |
| Board orders set aside | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12.7 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1,541 | 13.6 |
| On petitions for contempt | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Total Court Orders | 19 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 | 66.7 | ||||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 33.3 | ||||
| Court orders denying petition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 257 | 100.0 | |||||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 155 | 60.3 | |||||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7.0 | |||||
| Board orders set aside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 17.5 | |||||
| Remanded to Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 7.8 | |||||
| Remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.2 | |||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | |||||
| Contempt cases remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | |||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | |||||
38 of 49 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 166. Crop/footnotes: the table carries two footnote markers in the headings ("Number of proceedings^1" and "Board dismissal^2"), but the footnote text itself falls below the bottom edge of this crop — only the very top of the rule/first footnote line is visible, so `footnotes` is empty and the footnote text should be recovered from the full page. Stub heading: the top-left cell of the header block is blank on this page (no stub heading is printed), so cell 0 of every header row is "". Dash rules: every cell printed as "----" (a dash rule meaning "not applicable") is transcribed as "". On the "Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court" row the dash in the "Board dismissal" percentage column is printed slightly shorter ("---") than its neighbours; treated identically as "". Apparent printed inconsistency (transcribed as printed, not corrected): in the "On petitions for review and/or enforcement" row the "Board dismissal^2" count is printed as 0, yet its "Board dismissal" percentage is 100.0, and the detail line "Board orders set aside" below it shows a Board-dismissal count of 1 (which also matches the 1 shown on the top "Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals" line). The subtotal column therefore looks like it should read 1; it is printed as 0. Row-label wrapping: "Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication" and "Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied" each occupy two printed lines with their values aligned on the second line; each is transcribed as one row. All other column sums cross-check against the printed subtotals (Total 92+16+4+3+17=132; employers 87+16+4+3+16=126; unions 5+0+0+0+1=6; court orders 10+5+0+4=19).
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.