NLRB Lawyers Must Tell Fifth Circuit About SpaceX Case Calls

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ordered two National Labor Relations Board attorneys to explain why they were in contact with a California federal court clerk’s office, after the circuit stayed the transfer of a lawsuit to that district.

David P. Boehm and Lynn Ta, in-house lawyers for the agency, were instructed to answer by Wednesday afternoon a series of questions from a three-judge panel about their contacts with the Central District of California.

The questions include why the NLRB twice called the clerk’s office for the district in the days after the circuit issued the ...