Fifth Circuit Halts Amazon NLRB Case Over Constitutional Dispute

Litigation involving Amazon.com Inc. at the National Labor Relations Board should be stayed over claims that the labor agency violates the US Constitution, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held Monday.

Amazon had sued the labor board in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, arguing that the agency “violates bedrock constitutional principles of separation of powers” by serving as both prosecutor and judge after the NLRB rejected the retail giant’s objections to its first union election at a Staten Island warehouse.

Amazon sought an emergency injunction to halt the NLRB’s litigation of ...