National Labor Relations Board v. Beach Lane Management, Inc. , 505 F. App'x 62 ( 2012 )

11-3724, 11-4066
National Labor Relations Board v. Beach Lane Management
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
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1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
3 United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of
4 New York, on the 13th day of December, two thousand twelve.
5
6 PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS,
7 Chief Judge,
8 RALPH K. WINTER,
9 Circuit Judge,
10 LAURA TAYLOR SWAIN,
11 District Judge.*
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14 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD,
15 Petitioner/Cross-Respondent,
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17 -v.- 11-3724, 11-4066
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19 BEACH LANE MANAGEMENT, INC., FSM
20 MANAGEMENT, INC., CARPE DIEM
21 MANAGEMENT, LLC, A SINGLE EMPLOYER,
22 Respondent/Cross-Petitioner,
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Judge Laura Taylor Swain, of the United States
District Court for the Southern District of New York,
sitting by designation.
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2 FOR PETITIONER: ZACHARY HENIGE (Lafe E. Solomon,
3 Celeste J. Mattina, John H.
4 Ferguson, Linda Dreeben, Ruth E.
5 Burdick, David A. Seid, on the
6 brief), National Labor Relations
7 Board, Washington, D.C.
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9 FOR RESPONDENT: DANIEL J. KORNSTEIN (Laurent S.
10 Drogin, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP,
11 on the brief), Kornstein Veisz
12 Wexler & Pollard, LLP, New York, New
13 York.
14
15 Application for Enforcement and Cross-Petition for
16 Review of an Order of the National Labor Relations Board.
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18 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED
19 AND DECREED that the application of the National Labor
20 Relations Board to enforce its order is GRANTED, and the
21 cross-petition for review is DENIED.
22
23 Petitioner-Cross-Respondent National Labor Relations
24 Board (“NLRB”) seeks enforcement of its order. Respondents-
25 Cross-Petitioners (Beach Lane Management, Inc., FSM
26 Management, Inc., Carpe Diem Management, LLC, a single
27 employer (collectively, “BLM”)) seek review of that order.
28 The NLRB’s order requires BLM to, among other things, cease
29 and desist from engaging in unfair labor practices and to
30 reinstate four superintendents who were discharged as a
31 result of their activities on behalf of a labor union.
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33 Our review of an NLRB order is “highly deferential.”
34 Int’l Union, UAW v. NLRB, 520 F.3d 192, 196 (2d Cir. 2008).
35 “Specifically, we review the NLRB’s factual findings to
36 determine whether they are supported by substantial evidence
37 in light of the record as a whole, and we review the Board’s
38 legal conclusions to ensure that they have a reasonable
39 basis in law.” Id. (internal citations and quotation marks
40 omitted). “We review the remedy chosen by the Board for
41 abuse of discretion.” NLRB v. G & T Terminal Packaging Co.,
42 246 F.3d 103, 119 (2d Cir. 2001).
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44 1. Substantial evidence in the record as a whole supports
45 the conclusion that BLM discriminated against the four
46 superintendents by offering them less supplemental repair
47 work, as a result of their protected organizing activities.
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1 Although BLM points to various potential errors in the
2 statistical exhibits relied upon by the NLRB, we will not
3 displace the NLRB’s decision because it is adequately
4 supported in the record. Id. at 114.
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6 2. BLM also challenges the remedial language used in
7 Paragraph 2(b) of the NLRB’s order. BLM waived this
8 argument by not urging it before the Board. 29 U.S.C.
9 § 160(e); see also Elec. Contractors, Inc. v. NLRB, 245 F.3d
10 109, 115 (2d Cir. 2001).
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12 3. Finally, BLM challenges the aspect of the order
13 requiring that it reinstate Manuel Nina. In contesting
14 Nina’s reinstatement, BLM points to Nina’s dishonesty
15 regarding his whereabouts. Specifically, Nina was
16 unavailable for two weeks while he was in the Dominican
17 Republic and presented a forged doctor’s note to cover up
18 his absence. But substantial evidence supports the NLRB’s
19 finding that BLM typically would have given Nina the benefit
20 of the doubt regarding his lack of availability, and did not
21 do so in this instance solely because of his union
22 organizing activities. Accordingly, the NLRB did not abuse
23 its discretion in ordering Nina’s reinstatement.
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25 For the foregoing reasons, and finding no merit in
26 BLM’s other arguments, we hereby GRANT the NLRB’s
27 application for enforcement of its order and DENY BLM’s
28 cross-petition for review.
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30 FOR THE COURT:
31 CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK
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