VOLNEY FELT MILLS, INC.
v.
LE BUS
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A district court lacks jurisdiction to entertain an employer's suit challenging representation election results, even if constitutional rights are alleged.
Plaintiff employer sued to set aside a representation election, alleging denial of constitutional rights. The defendant moved to dismiss the complaint…
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PER CURIAM.
Alleging denial and deprivation of its constitutional rights by the actions and conduct of defendant, in the holding, and the certification of the results, of a representation election, plaintiff, as employer of the electors involved, brought this suit to restrain the defendant from giving effect to the certificate and to set it aside. Defendant moved to dismiss the complaint. An order was entered granting the motion and dismissing the complaint, and plaintiff has appealed.
Here it recognizes the law to be that, generally speaking, exclusive initial jurisdiction over matters arising under the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 141 et seq., is vested, by Congressional enactment, in the National Labor Relations Board, and a district court has no jurisdiction1 to entertain actions based thereon or growing thereout.
Citing Fay v. Douds, 2 Cir., 172 F. 2d 720 and Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. v. Douds, D.C., 97 F.Supp. 656, it insists, however, that where, as here, a denial or ot privation of the constitutional rights of an employer is alleged, the rule is different.
We cannot agree. Beginning with this court’s decision in the Bradley Lumber Co. case, note 1 supra, the Appellate Courts have adhered without wavering to the rule there laid down.
Of the cases from the Second Circuit relied on by appellant, it is sufficient to say of the Fay case, that it is not in point, and of the Worthington Pump case, that we are not in agreement with the judge’s views, as there given.
Appellant is not, as it claims, standing remediless, its constitutional rights invaded and taken away without affording it a judicial hearing. Its day in court2 will come, and soon, if it presses its available remedies. For that day it must, as all others similarly situated must, wait with such fortitude and patience as it can muster. Th^ judgment dismissing the cause for want of jurisdiction was right. It is affirmed.
. Bradley Lumber Co. of Arkansas v. N. L. R. B., 5 Cir., 84 F. 2d 97; Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 303 U.S. 41, 58 S.Ct. 459, 82 L.Ed. 638; Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Schauffler, 303 U.S. 54, 58 S.Ct. 466, 82 L.Ed. 646; Norris, Inc., v. N. L. R. B., 85 U.S.App.D.C. 106, 177 F. 2d 26.
. Norris, Inc., v. N. L. R. B., 85 U.S.App.D.C. 106, 177 F. 2d 26; May Department Stores v. N. L. R. B., 326 U.S. 376, 66 S.Ct. 203, 90 L.Ed. 145. Cf. N. L. R. B. v. Sidran, 5 Cir., 181 F. 2d 671.
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- Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 303 U.S. 41 (U.S. 1938)
- MAY Dep't Stores Co. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd., 326 U.S. 376 (U.S. 1945)
- FAY v. Douds, 172 F.2d 720 (2d Cir. 1949)
- Newport News Shipbuilding & DRY Dock Co. v. Schauffler, 303 U.S. 54 (U.S. 1938)
- Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Sidran, 181 F.2d 671 (5th Cir. 1950)
- Bradley Lumber Co. of Ark. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd., 84 F.2d 97 (5th Cir. 1936)
- Norris, Inc. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd., 177 F.2d 26 (D.C. Cir. 1949)