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July 05, 2024
In a U.S. Supreme Court term teeming with serious showdowns, the august air at oral arguments filled with laughter after an attorney mentioned her plastic surgeon and a justice seemed to diss his colleagues, to cite just two of the term's mirthful moments. Here, we look at the funniest moments of the term.
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July 05, 2024
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including gerrymandering, abortion and federal agency authority, and a hot bench ever more willing to engage in a lengthy back-and-forth with advocates. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 05, 2024
United Auto Workers is urging a Michigan federal judge to declare that the union can withhold confidential information — such as "highly sensitive" collective bargaining strategy — from the "unprecedented" amount of discovery requested by a monitor investigating alleged financial misconduct and retaliation within the union.
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July 05, 2024
A Washington federal judge partly blocked U.S. Department of Labor rules on prevailing wage rates that a union claimed depressed farmworkers' wages, saying the agency failed to consider effects on workers and must reinstate wage rates from 2020.
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July 05, 2024
The first half of 2024 included several significant decisions for labor law, including the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling toughening the standard for evaluating injunctions requested by National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and a Texas federal judge's decision striking down the board's joint employer rule. Here, Law360 examines these cases, as well as some of the other most important decisions from the first six months of the year.
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July 05, 2024
A New York federal judge on Monday will consider a Long Island restaurant's bid to dismiss a worker's lawsuit claiming the restaurant violated federal and state law by retaining a service charge instead of dividing it among servers as it told customers.
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July 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board can't press pause on SpaceX's second fight over the constitutionality of the agency's structure, a Texas federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the board couldn't demonstrate why the proceeding should be stayed.
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July 03, 2024
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees affiliates accused the city of Philadelphia of violating labor contracts by not bargaining over the end to remote work, telling a state court that the city's move would impact around 2,900 workers in the bargaining unit.
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July 03, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board recently issued its first order requiring an employer to bargain with a union under a relaxed standard for such orders based on violations during representation elections, but attorneys said the decision did not do much to clarify how the new standard will work.
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July 03, 2024
The owner of a shuttered New York City hotel is on the hook for more than $400,000 in payments to engineers required under an arbitration award, a hotel workers union argued, telling a federal judge that the owner can't evade the arbitrator's decision.
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July 03, 2024
The Bronx Defenders Union's bargaining committee voted on Tuesday to authorize an unlimited unfair labor practice strike beginning the week of July 22, saying the organization's staff continue to face high attrition, unwieldy caseloads and some of the lowest pay rates of New York City's public defenders.
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July 03, 2024
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a precedent established 40 years ago that said when judges could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking. Here, catch up with Law360's coverage of what is likely to happen next.
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July 02, 2024
A National Labor Relations Board dispute alleging a Kentucky public defender corporation refused to bargain over outsourcing of work with an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local should go forward, agency prosecutors argued, saying a nonboard settlement between the parties doesn't warrant termination of the proceeding.
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July 02, 2024
Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to give app-based drivers the right to unionize after supporters of a proposed ballot initiative submitted a batch of signatures to the state Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union announced.
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July 02, 2024
A Michigan hospital that withdrew recognition from a union urged a federal judge to dismiss a National Labor Relations Board injunction bid against it, arguing the related agency proceeding is unconstitutional because administrative law judges and the board have protections from presidential removal.
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July 02, 2024
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to undo the tossing of an antitrust lawsuit brought by a Broadway producer who accused a stage workers union of illegally putting him on a "do not work" list, ruling that the union is shielded from liability since it acted in legitimate self-interest.
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July 02, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the D.C. Circuit to rethink its approval of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decision granting market benefits for a small-scale solar energy project in Montana following the justices' blockbuster decision upending judicial deference to regulatory agencies.
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July 02, 2024
System administrators can't join a bargaining unit of technicians represented by an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers affiliate at a Florida aerospace facility, a National Labor Relations Board regional director determined, saying there isn't enough evidence that the administrators' role changed significantly.
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July 01, 2024
By ending its term with a stinging combination against federal agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative bloc left behind a bruised bureaucracy and a regulatory system that's now vulnerable to a barrage of incoming attacks.
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July 01, 2024
Labor advocates are raising concerns over a conservative group's framework for changes in the next Republican administration that calls for the National Labor Relations Board to support the position that political conflicts of interest can support fair representation claims against unions, among other changes to labor law.
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July 01, 2024
A building management services company fought the certification of an International Union of Operating Engineers local at the D.C. Circuit on Monday, claiming a National Labor Relations Board agent left the ballot box "unsecured and unattended" during a representation election.
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July 01, 2024
National Labor Relations Board prosecutors and the American Civil Liberties Union filed dueling briefs in a board challenge to an ex-policy attorney's firing, with prosecutors claiming she was fired for speaking out about bad bosses and the group claiming she relentlessly smeared Black supervisors.
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July 01, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board should find that Amazon lawfully barred a pro-union banner in the breakroom at a Staten Island, New York, facility, the e-commerce giant argued, disputing an agency judge's conclusions of federal labor law violations and credibility findings for union salts.
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July 01, 2024
A Texas federal judge refused Monday to grant a marketing company's request to block a U.S. Department of Labor rule that raises the salary thresholds for claiming overtime-exemption under federal law, saying the firm failed to show it will be harmed by the new standards.
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July 01, 2024
Starbucks violated federal labor law by enforcing a rule that barred workers from putting messages like "union strong" on customers' cups during a "sip-in" action, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled, saying the policy could dissuade a reasonable worker from participating in union activities.