NLRB Owed $224,000 in Legal Fees in Contempt Case, DC Cir. Says

The company that formerly ran a Southern California newspaper must pay the National Labor Relations Board $224,000 in legal fees for litigating a contempt action against the company, a federal appeals court held.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday approved the fee amount charged to Ampersand Publishing LLC in connection with its failure to comply with the court’s judgment from 2017.

The case stems from a labor dispute at the Santa Barbara News-Press, which Ampersand operated until it declared bankruptcy in 2023. Billionaire Wendy McCaw bought the newspaper, which was founded in 1868, ...