United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019-08-09
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: Review of Board supplemental decision after D.C. Circuit remand; Board dismissed the discriminatory-discharge complaint for strike misconduct.; result: claimant-lost; claim: (a)
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
| Case | Element | Holding and scope | Variant | Exact source quotations |
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| /f3d/934/0590-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019 | Section 7 protected rights | not Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: law; claim: (a); party: Hudson; subject: party=Hudson The court accepts the loss-of-protection determination on these facts. Participation in a strike does not make every associated act protected; no universal highway-conduct rule is inferred. | strike-conduct/dangerous-highway-obstruction | Hudson, who had worked for Consolidated for 39 years, was a Union member and participated in the strike.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0590-01; Unicode character offsets [733:837] (end exclusive); SHA-256 9d0f678c3f36c6a31a3da2556b4592bad5c1d23c16a258dab96fd840b9a5ea66.Before it could pass Hudson, she changed lanes and intentionally blocked the Consolidated truck from passing.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0590-01; Unicode character offsets [1884:1993] (end exclusive); SHA-256 9d0f678c3f36c6a31a3da2556b4592bad5c1d23c16a258dab96fd840b9a5ea66.The entire incident took place at highway speeds.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0590-01; Unicode character offsets [2170:2219] (end exclusive); SHA-256 9d0f678c3f36c6a31a3da2556b4592bad5c1d23c16a258dab96fd840b9a5ea66.Here, the conduct may be less severe, but it is still sufficient to forfeit the Act's protection.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0590-01; Unicode character offsets [7766:7863] (end exclusive); SHA-256 9d0f678c3f36c6a31a3da2556b4592bad5c1d23c16a258dab96fd840b9a5ea66.Because the Board based their decision on substantial evidence and a reasonable application of the law, we AFFIRM.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0590-01; Unicode character offsets [9070:9184] (end exclusive); SHA-256 9d0f678c3f36c6a31a3da2556b4592bad5c1d23c16a258dab96fd840b9a5ea66. |
| /f3d/934/0590-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2019 | Section 7 protected rights | not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / procedural claim: (a); theory: unpreserved per-se-highway-rule objection; subject: theory=unpreserved per-se-highway-rule objection The unpreserved per-se-rule argument is a separate procedural ruling, not another merits finding that strike activity lacks protection. | Unspecified variant | While we do not agree with this characterization of the Board's decision, the Union failed to raise it before the Board; therefore, we are jurisdictionally precluded from considering it.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_934.jsonl#/f3d/934/0590-01; Unicode character offsets [5211:5397] (end exclusive); SHA-256 9d0f678c3f36c6a31a3da2556b4592bad5c1d23c16a258dab96fd840b9a5ea66. |