National Labor Relations Board v. Anchor Rome Mills, 13990.
Decision Date | 12 June 1952 |
Docket Number | No. 13990.,13990. |
Citation | 197 F.2d 447 |
Parties | NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. ANCHOR ROME MILLS, Inc. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Harvey B. Diamond, Atty., A. Norman Somers, Asst. Gen. Counsel, David P. Findling, Associate Gen. Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D. C., for appellant.
Frank A. Constangy, Atlanta, Ga., John W. Maddox, Rome, Ga., for appellee.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL, and STRUM, Circuit Judges.
Appealing from an order denying enforcement of a subpoena, the regional director had issued in an investigatory proceeding,1 the Board is here insisting that the order was erroneous and must be reversed.
The district judge, of the opinion that neither the Act nor the Board's Rules and Regulations authorized the issuance of a subpoena in aid of investigation before a complaint had been filed, held that the subpoena had been issued without authority and denied enforcement of it.
The Board is here, pointing out that by express provisions of Sec. 112 of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 161, the subpoena powers it confers on the Board extend to "all hearings and investigations, which, in the opinion of the Board are necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers vested in it by sections 9 and 10 of the act", and that it has been held in N. L. R. B. v. Barrett Co., 7 Cir., 120 F.2d 583, 586, that it is "the Board's right (as well as its duty) to investigate, and in the course of its investigation, if need be, to issue subpoenas before it files a complaint". So pointing, it insists that the order appealed from finds no support in law.
The appellee does not see the matter as the Board does. Taking no issue with the Board's position, that the district judge erred in holding that "subpoenas duces tecum may not be issued by the Regional Director until after the filing of a complaint", appellee puts forward in support of the ruling below the claim that the procedure employed in the issuance of the subpoena violated Sec. 1002(a)3 and 1005(c)4 of the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C.A. § 1001 et seq. As appellee states it in its brief:
We cannot agree with these views. Indeed, we find no basis for them in either the Administrative Procedure Act or the Labor Management Act. We cannot find, in the enforcement of subpoena process in investigatory proceedings, any basis for the imagined fears of appellee that Constitutional rights will thereby be invaded and trampled upon. Neither can we agree with appellee's view that the Rules and Regulations, on which the Board relies, do not provide for, or authorize the issuance of, the subpoena in question here. We are, on the contrary, of the clear opinion that, by the express terms of the Statute, supplemented by its Rules and Regulations, the Board was authorized to proceed, as it has done, and that, in holding as he did that the subpoena was not enforcible because issued without authority of law, the court erred.
This is not to say that the subpoena must be enforced precisely according to its terms and without modification....
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