February 21, 2024
Federal courts nationwide should require the National Labor Relations Board to satisfy four criteria to win injunctions in labor disputes, Starbucks told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying that applying certain jurisdictions' more lenient criteria grants the NLRB a "blank check" for obtaining injunctions.
January 12, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to standardize the circuit courts' approach to vetting National Labor Relations Board injunction bids after accepting on Jan. 12 Starbucks' challenge to a Sixth Circuit ruling upholding an order to rehire seven fired workers.
January 01, 2024
A wide variety of cases are likely to keep retail industry attorneys busy in 2024, including high-profile antitrust actions against Amazon and Google, a growing number of greenwashing disputes, and skirmishes between major retailers and their increasingly unionized workforces.
January 01, 2024
Food and beverage attorneys have no shortage of interesting litigation to follow in 2024, from Starbucks' sprawling fight with employees who are determined to organize, to claims over heavy metals and "forever chemicals" contaminating food, and McDonald's asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the issue of no-poach clauses in franchisee agreements.
December 07, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up Starbucks' call to harmonize the federal courts' approach to vetting rare labor injunction bids, saying the differences among the tests are more semantic than practical.
November 07, 2023
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups advocating for employers called for the U.S. Supreme Court to disavow a test for granting injunctions related to National Labor Relations Board cases, supporting Starbucks' appeal of a Sixth Circuit decision upholding an injunction ordering the company to rehire seven fired pro-union workers in Tennessee.