(September 8, 2016, 7:16 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred when it found that a former acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) served in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA) (5 U.S. Code Section 3345, et seq.) for nearly two years and, as a result, the unfair labor practice complaint he issued against an ambulance company was unauthorized, the NLRB argued in its Aug. 12 petitioner brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court (National Labor Relations Board v. SW General, Inc., doing business as Southwest Ambulance, No. 15-1251, U.S. Sup.)....