Watts v. Bayou Landing, Ltd.

How later courts describe this case

• holding discretionary decisions not to depart are not reviewable absent a finding of unconstitutional motive
• “[cjoercing employees to give untrue testimony just as surely undermines the integrity of Board proceedings as does coercing employees to give no testimony at ah”
• questioning vitality of Basurto in light of later Supreme Court decision
• grand jurors were aware that witness had perjured himself, and his testimony was not material to grand jury's consideration
• employee who refused to testify in support of union protected under the National Labor Relations Act
• discrimination established under § 8(a)(4) of NLRA although employee provided no information at all during agency proceeding
• defendants are not entitled to use bill of particulars to discover all overt acts that might be proved at trial
• no error in admitting testimony of co-defendant where remaining defendants failed to demonstrate some “actual prejudice resulting from [the co-defendant’s] supposed knowledge of defense strategy, or that [he] communicated such knowledge to the Government”