Brownyard v. County of Suffolk

How courts have described this case

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• holding that NLRB exceeded its authority under NLRA by awarding, in effect, compensatory damages for “direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms incurred as a result of the unlawful adverse actions against [employees]” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• concluding such relief is ultra vires
• holding in favor of employer
• petitioner failed to link removal-protection infirmity to an actual harm and therefore could not bring challenge
• petitioner failed to link removal-protection infirmity to an actual harm and therefore could not bring challenge
• “If the Board were correct, then all instances of compensatory damages could qualify as an equitable remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).