· 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.”
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Judges: Van Dusen, Wald, Mikva, Van Dusen Third
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