A New York federal judge on Monday made permanent his temporary block on a 2025 New York law empowering state enforcers to act for the National Labor Relations Board when it can't, declining to second-guess U.S. Supreme Court precedent barring states from stepping on the board's ground.
A Washington federal judge has allowed most of a campus food-service worker's wage and hour claims to proceed, finding the worker adequately pleaded violations of state meal and rest break laws and willful withholding of wages.
A professors union and its Texas affiliate asked a Texas federal court to stop Texas Tech University's chancellor and board from enforcing policies that, the unions say, censor academic speech on race, gender identity and sexual orientation, arguing the policies will cause irreparable harm to the university's teachers.