If the U.S. Supreme Court steps in to review the legality of former Federal Trade Commission leader Rebecca Slaughter's firing before the D.C. Circuit does, it should also intervene to consider former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox's firing, Wilcox told the justices.
The Eighth Circuit on Tuesday questioned trade groups challenging a Minnesota independent contractor misclassification law about the level of scrutiny to apply to the statute and seemed unconvinced that the law is unconstitutionally vague.
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday refused to bring back a $70 million jury award for a group of former telecommunications workers in a race discrimination suit, saying a trial court judge rightly concluded that the evidence didn't back it up.