Appeals Panel Grills NLRB Over Ruling in BLM Protest Dispute (Correct)

A panel of appeals court judges peppered attorneys from the National Labor Relations Board over its decision to order reinstatement for a Home Depot Inc. worker who refused to remove a “Black Lives Matter” insignia from his uniform.

Home Depot asserted that the NLRB ignored its rights under the First Amendment and the National Labor Relations Act during oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Wednesday. The all-Republican panel seemed skeptical of the agency’s standard for weighing employer free speech rights against workers’ rights.

“There’s this notion of ‘The customer’s always right’ and if you ...