February 20, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider South Carolina's challenge to a Fourth Circuit ruling that allowed a dockworkers union to sue a shipping group over labor issues at a terminal at the Port of Charleston.
December 07, 2023
The International Longshoremen's Association has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a Fourth Circuit ruling that let the union pursue a lawsuit against a shippers' group over labor allocation at a new Port of Charleston terminal, saying Thursday that case law backs the appellate court's decision.
October 31, 2023
The governors of South Carolina and Georgia have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit ruling that allowed a dockworkers' union to sue shippers for using a partially nonunion state-run port.
October 30, 2023
The Fourth Circuit "doomed" 270 state employees to losing their jobs at South Carolina's Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal when it allowed the International Longshoremen's Association to sue shippers for docking at a state-run port employing nonunion workers, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation told the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 26, 2023
The Georgia Ports Authority supported its South Carolina counterpart Thursday by urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit ruling allowing a dockworkers' union to sue shippers for using a partially nonunion state-run port, saying the ruling runs afoul of laws prohibiting so-called secondary boycotts.
September 29, 2023
South Carolina urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit ruling letting a dock workers union sue shippers for using a partially nonunion state-run port, saying the decision "gutted" federal labor law's ban on so-called secondary boycotts.