National Labor Relations Board v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A]n em- ployer may not rely on employee conduct that it has unlaw- fully provoked as a basis for disciplining an employee.”
• “[A]n em- ployer may not rely on employee conduct that it has unlaw- fully provoked as a basis for disciplining an employee.”
• statements “were not unambiguous or ‘outright’ ... threats of physical violence ” (emphasis added)
• statements \were not unambiguous or `outright' ... threats of physical violence \ (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).