NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2009 › Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 2009 and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936 to 2009
| Fiscal Year 2009 | July 5, 1936 to Sept. 30, 2009 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1936 to Sept. 30, 2009 | |||||||||
| 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 and other courts | |||||||||||
| On proceedings for review and/or enforcement | 61 | 44 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 72.1 | 9.8 | 1.6 | 16.4 | 12,107 | 100.0 |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 48 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 75.0 | 10.4 | 2.1 | 12.5 | 8,050 | 66.5 |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 66.7 | 33.3 | 0 | 0 | 1,567 | 12.9 |
| Remanded to the Board | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25.0 | 0 | 0 | 75.0 | 607 | 5.0 |
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 66.7 | 0 | 0 | 33.3 | 276 | 2.3 |
| Board orders set aside | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,607 | 13.3 |
| On petitions for contempt | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | ||||
| Ancillary proceedings in district courts and/or bankruptcy courts | 31 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | ||||
| Total Court Orders | 23 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 95.7 | 4.3 | ||||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | ||||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | ||||
| Court orders denying petition or discontinuing proceedings at CLCB request | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | ||||
| Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | ||||
| Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 259 | 100.0 | ||||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 0 | 155 | 59.8 | ||||||||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 0 | 18 | 6.9 | ||||||||
| Board orders set aside | 0 | 46 | 17.8 | ||||||||
| Remanded to the Board | 0 | 20 | 7.7 | ||||||||
| Remanded to Court of Appeals | 0 | 17 | 6.5 | ||||||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Contempt cases remanded to Court of Appeals | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||||||
42 of 51 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 150. Twelve columns: stub, then five "Number of proceedings^1" columns (Total, vs. employers only, vs. unions only, vs. both employers and unions, Board dismissal^2), four "Percentages" columns (same four breakdowns, no Total column), and the two cumulative columns (Number, Percent). The stub has no printed heading, so cell 0 of each heading level is empty. Dash cells: the table prints a short double-hyphen "--" (the standard "not applicable" symbol) in many cells, and these are kept as printed rather than emptied, because the table also uses genuinely blank cells and the distinction is informative. "--" appears in the last four columns of the opening row "Proceedings decided by U.S. Courts of Appeals and other courts" and in the last four columns of the eight rows from "On petitions for contempt" through "Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication". Truly blank cells appear in columns 2-8 of that opening row, in the four Percentages columns of the "Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court" row, and in columns 3-10 of all eight Supreme Court detail rows. No footnotes are printed on this crop even though footnote markers 1 ("Number of proceedings") and 2 ("Board dismissal", both occurrences) appear in the column headings; the footnote text presumably falls below the cropped area or on a following page. Percentages are printed inconsistently: "100.0" and other one-decimal values in the Courts of Appeals review/enforcement block, but bare "100", "0" and "95.7"/"4.3" in the contempt and ancillary block. Transcribed as printed. Arithmetic as printed is internally consistent for the Courts of Appeals block (44+6+1+10=61; 48+3+4+3+3=61; 8,050+1,567+607+276+1,607=12,107). In the Supreme Court block the cumulative Number column sums to 259 as printed, but the cumulative Percent entries (59.8, 6.9, 17.8, 7.7, 6.5, 0.4, 0.4, 0.4) sum to 99.9 against a printed total of 100.0 — a rounding artifact, left as printed. Row labels wrapping two printed lines were joined: "Proceedings decided by U.S. Courts of Appeals and other courts", "Court orders denying petition or discontinuing proceedings at CLCB request", "Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication", and "Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied". Hyphenated column headings were repaired ("vs. em-ployers" to "vs. employers", "employ-ers" to "employers", "dis-missal" to "dismissal").
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.