The original case was brought by Noel Canning, a Washington state bottling company, which challenged an NLRB decision that it must enter into a collective bargaining agreement with a labor union. The ABC-led Coalition for a Democratic Workplace intervened in the case and, last January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the president violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill NLRB vacancies.
In addition to reaffirming the legislative branch's role in the presidential appointee confirmation process, today's Supreme Court ruling jeopardizes the legal status of more than 1,000 Board actions over the past two years.