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· 6/15/1984

Passaic Daily News, T/a the Herald News v. National Labor Relations Board

Citations

  • 736 F.2d 1543
  • 237 U.S. App. D.C. 178
  • 10 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1905
  • 116 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2721
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 21508

How courts have described this case

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  • upholding order directing that columnist fired for discriminatory reasons be reinstated, but vacating directive that the paper “resume publication of [his] weekly column”
  • “In Catholic Bishop, the only question the Court addressed was whether the [NLRA] conferred jurisdiction over teachers who taught both religious and secular subjects in church operated schools.”
  • even where columnist was terminated for unlawful discriminatory reasons, courts could not “mandate[e] resumption of [his] column” because they “must yield to the [newspaper’s] First Amendment interest in retaining control over prospective editorial decisions”
  • “[N]ewspapers have absolute discretion to determine the contents of their newspapers.”
  • language added by the court

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Judges: Van Dusen, Wald, Mikva, Van Dusen Third

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