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And so it begins: President Obama's recess appointments face their first attacks

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 19 2012

On Friday, January 13, 2012, a number of business groups, including the National Federation of Independent Business, National Right to Work Foundation, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, lodged the first legal challenge seeking to block President Barack Obama’s January 4, 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board

A new challenge to President Obama's recess appointments in federal court means a decision on the constitutionality of the appointments is getting closer

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 26 2012

The first challenge to President Obama's recess appointments, which was an attempt to bootstrap the issue to a federal lawsuit targeting the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board's ("NLRB") notice-posting rule, has come and gone