section 8(c)
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 341 U.S. 694 - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. National Labor Relations Board · 1951Most cited · 420 citing opinions
NLRA · construing 29 U.S.C. § 151 · National Labor Relations Act
The remedial function of §8(c) is to protect noncoercive speech by employer and labor organization alike in furtherance of a lawful object.
How often courts cite the case defining “section 8(c)”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “section 8(c)” — 1,073 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.