NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago

NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 30, 1978 Decided Mar 21, 1979
Full case name	National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago et al.
Citations	440 U.S. 490 (more) 99 S. Ct. 1313; 59 L. Ed. 2d 533;
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of the regulations, 559 F. 2d 1112. cert. granted, 434 U.S. 1061 (1978).
Subsequent	None
Holding
The National Labor Relations Board does not have the power under the Wagner Act to regulate parochial religious schools.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Burger, joined by Stewart, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens
Dissent	Brennan, joined by White, Marshall, Blackmun
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I; Public Law 74-198, 49 Stat. 449 (Wagner Act)

National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago, 440 U.S. 490 (1979), was a Supreme Court of the United States case that ruled that the National Labor Relations Board did not have the authority to regulate religious schools. The court ruled that the Wagner Act did not grant the board authority over religious schools and that even if it did, that would cause a worrying intrusion of the federal government into religion.^[1][2]

This case serves as one of the foundational pillars of the ministerial exception doctrine.