404 U.S. 1204 | SCOTUS | 1971
Acting Circuit Justice.
Respondents, two law professors who are undertaking a study of labor representation elections, applied for and obtained an order from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia requiring the National Labor Relations Board to provide respondents “with names and addresses of employees eligible to vote in approximately 35 elections to be designated by (respondents).” Respondents base their claim to the information on the language of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U. S. C. § 552 (a)(3), which requires that a Government agency “on request for identifiable records . . . shall make the records promptly available to any person.” The Government has filed an application seeking a stay of the order of the District Court. This application was assigned to me in the absence of The Chief Justice.
The Government applies for a stay on the ground that the District Court order requiring the Board to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and deliver the records in question to respondents would interfere with the representation election procedures under the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, as amended. The Board was created by Congress and Congress has
It is so ordered.