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Chamber support helped invalidate Obama appointments

Broad coalition of industry groups—and their attorneys—helped small company win big constitutional argument in appeals court Noel Canning, a member company of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, had a weak case against the National Labor Relations Board in some ways. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—before tossing a constitutional bombshell at the administration of Barack Obama—found that the Yakima, Wash.-based canning and bottling company had committed the unfair labor practice at the heart of the case. But three Jones Day attorneys hired by the Chamber and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace—who wrote the legal briefs and made… Read More