The First Circuit has declined to vacate an arbitration award ordering Harvard University to include a group of doctoral psychology students in a bargaining unit for graduate student workers, rejecting the college's claims that the dispute can't be arbitrated.
Immigrant detainees and Washington state asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a prison operator's bid to review a ruling on minimum wages for detention facility workers, arguing a federal agency changed the underlying rules months before the government urged the court to take the case.
The Seventh Circuit will take on tricky employment discrimination questions in cases over vaccine requirements and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent, while the Third Circuit will weigh in on a contentious equal pay fight and the Second Circuit will consider an attorney's fight to revive her bias case. Here's a look at four oral arguments that discrimination attorneys should keep tabs on in October.