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May 13, 2025
The Fifth Circuit should stand by its decision that the National Labor Relations Board correctly vacated Exxon Mobil's win in an agency case after learning that a board member who presided over the litigation had a stake in the company, the agency told the appellate court.
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May 13, 2025
Federal prosecutors requested a six-month prison sentence for a former International Union of Operating Engineers general president after he pled guilty to failure to disclose $315,000 worth of event tickets and additional benefits in annual reports to the U.S. Department of Labor, while the ex-union leader sought probation.
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May 12, 2025
A union representing employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the D.C. Circuit to keep in place a lower court injunction barring the agency from stopping work and firing staff, asserting ahead of oral arguments this week that the Trump administration is trying to "place the executive branch above the law."
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May 12, 2025
The United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Workers of America agreed to drop its claim that the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency violated an agreement to better investigate potentially fraudulent claims as long as the agency takes steps to comply with the deal.
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May 12, 2025
A new position helping with medical imaging at a Pennsylvania hospital must stay in a bargaining unit represented by the United Steelworkers, a National Labor Relations Board regional director concluded Monday, tossing the hospital's argument that a Service Employees International Union affiliate should represent this role.
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May 12, 2025
The choice of the name Leo XIV signals the new pope intends to make workers' rights a pillar of his papacy as the rise of artificial intelligence presages a workplace shake-up like that of the manufacturing revolution under the last pope to bear the moniker.
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May 12, 2025
Two unions and an advocacy group argued Monday that there's no need for the U.S. Supreme Court to make it easier for the Department of Government Efficiency to access the Social Security Administration's data on millions of Americans, claiming requiring the supposed fraud-busting team to follow protocol doesn't constitute an emergency.
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May 12, 2025
A group of retirees and unions asked an Indiana federal judge not to pause his order requiring Alcoa USA Corp. to reinstate lifetime healthcare benefits, arguing the company isn't likely to win at the Seventh Circuit and delaying the district court's decision harms elderly class members.
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May 12, 2025
The Teamsters and the International Association of Machinists are challenging a bankruptcy court's finding that Yellow Corp. is not liable for failing to tell 22,000 union workers they were about to lose their jobs because the company was folding, asking a Delaware federal judge to reverse the ruling.
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May 12, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Employment law firm Jackson Lewis PC is growing its West Coast ranks, bringing in a Best Best & Krieger LLP litigator as a principal in its San Diego office.
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May 09, 2025
A California federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked federal agencies and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from carrying out President Donald Trump's directive to reduce the government workforce, saying the president doesn't have the constitutional or statutory authority "to reorganize the executive branch."
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May 09, 2025
Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said Friday that he plans to fight President Donald Trump's attempt to fire him, arguing that the president doesn't have the authority to sack members of the independent, bipartisan commission and telling Trump, "See you in court, Mr. President."
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May 09, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge should toss a renewed challenge to the Trump administration's resignation incentive program for the same reasons he tossed it before, the government argued, saying the union-brought challenge is doomed because of standing issues and because it belongs before an agency, not a federal judge.
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May 09, 2025
This week, the Second Circuit will consider social media platform X's attempt to reverse a lower court order requiring it to pay fees for arbitration proceedings with employees who claim they were not paid the full amount of severance they were owed. Here, Law360 looks at this and other cases on the docket in New York.
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May 09, 2025
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
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May 09, 2025
A New York federal court deemed an arbitration award of about $895,000 valid against a construction company that failed to comply with an audit required under a collective bargaining agreement with the New York City District Council of Carpenters.
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May 09, 2025
Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
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May 09, 2025
The National Labor Relations Board defended its decision finding Nexstar Media Inc. shift leads in Denver are statutory employees who can unionize, telling the Fifth Circuit to nix the company's challenge to a union's certification and its objections to a representation election.
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May 09, 2025
Employer-side labor law firm Fisher Phillips has launched a Tokyo office in response to increasing client demand from American and multinational companies doing business in Japan and from Japanese companies doing business in the Americas.
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May 09, 2025
The D.C. Circuit doesn't need to rethink its finding that a company violated federal labor law by snubbing a union after acquiring a Puerto Rico hospital, the AFL-CIO has argued, fighting the company's challenge to both its loss and the National Labor Relations Board's successor bar doctrine.
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May 09, 2025
The retired Justice David Souter defied simple definition, viewed as a staunch conservative until he co-wrote an opinion upholding abortion rights in 1992. He did not hew to partisan lines, but reshaped the civil litigation landscape and took an unexpected stand in an extraordinarily close presidential election.
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May 09, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for the potential initial approval of a $7.2 million deal in a proposed wage and hour class action against Marathon Refining Logistics Services and related companies. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 09, 2025
Justice David Souter, who saw the high court as a moderating force apart from the messiness of politics, subverted the expectations of liberals and conservatives alike during his 19 years on the bench.
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May 09, 2025
Retired Justice David H. Souter, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1990 to 2009, has died at 85, the court announced Friday.