A Review of Labor and Employment Law Decisions: United States Supreme Court, October 1979 Term

In approaching what must be a rather cursory review of 1979 Term United States Supreme Court decisions having an impact on labor and employment law, one's most dominant initial impression concerns the growing parameters of this phase of our national law.An attempt has been made to include significant cases affecting labor and employment law.The very breadth of such a category results in ill-defined edges because the choices of cases to be included were not always easy or obvious.In reviewing the Supreme Court decisions, it is difficult to arrive at a format that is entirely satisfactory.Numerous categories can be used and each is helpful in different ways.A somewhat eclectic, though admittedly wooden, approach is adopted, which reflects an analysis that appears to be sensible and helpful, although other approaches could have been useful.At this point, it is worth noting that only three of the cases deal squarely with the interpretation and application of the