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  1. October 03, 2024

    2nd Circ. Reverses Unsealing Of Janitor's Arbitration Award

    A Second Circuit panel ruled that a $57,100 arbitration award in a misclassification suit against a cleaning company must remain confidential, flipping a Connecticut federal court's decision unsealing the award and declining to dismiss the case.

  2. September 20, 2024

    NY Forecast: 2nd Circ. Hears Unsealed Arbitration Award Row

    This week the Second Circuit will consider a janitorial company's challenge to a lower court order that allowed an arbitration award in a dispute over what a janitor alleged was the company's misclassification of janitors as independent contractors to become public. Here, Law360 explores this and another employment case on the docket in New York.

  3. March 28, 2024

    Janitor Tells 2nd Circ. Arbitration Award Must Stay Public

    The Second Circuit should reject a cleaning company's argument that a $57,100 arbitration award isn't a judicial document because it tackles the heart of a misclassification suit, a janitor said, saying a Connecticut federal court correctly unsealed the award.

  4. October 25, 2023

    2nd Circ. Asked To Wait To Mull Arbitration Award's Release

    The Second Circuit should wait to consider whether a Connecticut federal court correctly unsealed a $57,100 arbitration award linked to a misclassification suit against a cleaning company because the U.S. Supreme Court might tackle a case facing similar issues, a janitor said Wednesday.