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July 03, 2025
A D.C. Circuit panel stayed an order Thursday reinstating a fired member of a panel that decides federal agencies' union disputes in line with a U.S. Supreme Court order freezing out two fired leaders of other labor agencies.
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July 03, 2025
It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.
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July 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.
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July 03, 2025
Allegations that a Teamsters local in Washington state breached labor agreements by encouraging drivers it represented not to cross picket lines during a strike don't hold water, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a construction company's broad interpretation of these pacts.
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July 03, 2025
A Las Vegas Strip casino was within its rights to fire two bartenders but violated labor law by firing a cook, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, finding the casino discharged the bartenders for a legitimate reason but fired the cook because he spoke out about working conditions.
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July 03, 2025
National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's firing has disabled key functions at the agency charged with overseeing worker organizing and labor relations in much of the private sector, and her challenge to the unprecedented removal could upend a pillar of administrative law. Here, Law360 explores the biggest labor story of the year so far.
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July 03, 2025
The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.
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July 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.
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July 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the question presented in a case it recently agreed to take up over the methodology for calculating businesses' liability for pulling out of multiemployer pension plans.
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July 02, 2025
A Teamsters local sought to nix Kroger's attempt to dismiss allegations that the grocery giant won't arbitrate a grievance about health insurance coverage for a worker's family members, telling a Kansas federal judge the company can't raise claims about arbitrability at this point in the proceeding.
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July 02, 2025
Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has taken a number of actions to pare back the U.S. government workforce, including widespread layoffs and agency restructurings, but federal workers' unions have sought to curb those efforts by filing a flood of lawsuits — with mixed results.
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July 02, 2025
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors claimed Starbucks deployed a "nationwide strategy to crush" unionization efforts in challenging an agency judge's denial of remedies, arguing that the board must find the coffee giant illegally fired five workers who went inside a South Carolina store after hours to clean it.
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July 02, 2025
A National Labor Relations Board finding that a medical imaging facility operator violated an informal settlement agreement by failing to rehire a worker with back pay should be nixed, the company told the Ninth Circuit, saying she forfeited her right to reinstatement and her position no longer exists.
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July 02, 2025
A Chicago hotel must comply with an arbitration award finding it failed to employ union-represented workers while it was used as a migrant shelter, an Illinois federal judge ruled, upholding conclusions that the employer tried to evade bargaining obligations.
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July 02, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board correctly docked Starbucks for sending workers subpoenas "demanding that they reveal every aspect of their union organizing activities" after they had agreed to testify against the company in an unfair labor practice case, Workers United told the Fifth Circuit, asking it to enforce the ruling.
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July 02, 2025
After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.
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July 01, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board has spent most of the first half of 2025 without a quorum, and while experts expect President Donald Trump to name nominees soon, competing visions for labor policy within the Republican Party might complicate their paths to confirmation.
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July 01, 2025
A split D.C. Circuit has upheld the National Labor Relations Board's dismissal of allegations that a transportation union betrayed a member by suggesting that he be fired after a spat with a co-worker, with the majority saying Tuesday that the NLRB properly determined that the suggestion wasn't serious.
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July 01, 2025
The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.
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July 01, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.
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July 01, 2025
UPS must shell out a specified back pay amount ordered by an arbitration panel for a reinstated worker, a Teamsters local told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing the award clearly required the company to provide a certain amount of compensation that did not factor in unemployment benefits.
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July 01, 2025
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has limited universal injunctions, employers, workers and their advocates could have to turn to motions to vacate, associational standing and other pathways to relief in employment law litigation, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores the potential impact.
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July 01, 2025
A supermarket in California lawfully fired an employee for secretly recording a colleague, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said in a memorandum, determining the terminated worker's actions lost federal labor law protection.
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July 01, 2025
A New York federal judge tossed two New York City public defenders' lawsuit against their union, saying the attorneys can't leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying the union because they disagree with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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July 01, 2025
A Georgia man hit KBR Inc. and HomeSafe Alliance LLC with a proposed class action alleging that they failed to provide notice before terminating some 200 employees after the U.S. government scrapped a moving services contract worth up to $20 billion for performance troubles.