Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Case Summary

Facts: The parties to the lawsuit are Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (the defendants) and the National Labor Relations Board (the plaintiffs). The National Labor Relations Board found the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation to violate the principles of National Relations Act of 1935. Thus, they decided to charge and order Jones & Laughlin, the executives of the Steel CORP, to drop all practices within their corporation that violated the principles of the National Labor Relations Act and to follow their ultimatum. Furthermore, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp denied the National Relations Boards petition, and instead opted to take the dispute to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Here the case was undecided because the court argued that cases as these