On March 21, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the D.C. Circuit’s holding that Lafe Solomon, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama to serve as acting general counsel to the NLRB in June 2010 when the prior general counsel resigned his position, was prohibited by the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) from continuing to serve in that role following his January 5, 2011 nomination to the general counsel position. The decision in NLRB v. SW General does not invalidate all NLRB decisions issued during Solomon’s tenure, and it is not comparable in scope to the Court’s 2014 decision in Noel Canning.
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