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PG Publishing Company, Inc., dba Pittsburgh Post-Gazette v. National Labor Relations Board, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 24-2788, 24-3057 · judgment November 10, 2025
Before the decision, about 3.5× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Third Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition citing three to ten dissents.
Questions presented
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Whether the National Labor Relations Act permits a finding that an employer has bargained in bad faith based solely on the substance of the company’s proposals on mandatory subjects of collective bargaining, without evidence of any bad-faith behavior away from the bargaining table.
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Whether the Third Circuit’s “highly deferential” review of the National Labor Relations Board’s interpretation of its statutory authority, which conflicts with the decisions of other courts of appeals, violates this Court’s holding in Loper Bright Enters. v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. 369, 412 (2024), that “[c]ourts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority.”
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Whether the National Labor Relations Board has the statutory or constitutional authority to order an employer to pay consequential damages that employees incur as a result of an unfair labor practice.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Christopher Julian Paolella
Reich and Paolella LLP
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Unions (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, October 5, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 05 2026Petition DENIED.
- Jul 02 2026Reply of petitioner PG Publishing Co., Inc. d/b/a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette filed. (Distributed)
- Jul 01 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Jun 17 2026Brief of Federal respondent in opposition filed.
- Jun 17 2026Brief of respondent Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh/CWA Local 38061 in opposition filed.
- May 19 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 17, 2026, for all respondents.
- May 18 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including June 17, 2026, for all respondents.
- May 18 2026Motion of respondent Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh/CWA Local 38061 to extend the time to file a response from May 18, 2026 to June 17, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- May 14 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from May 18, 2026 to June 17, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Apr 14 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 18, 2026)