A split Ninth Circuit panel refused Friday to reinstate a lawsuit alleging an Oregon healthcare system violated the First Amendment when it refused to excuse a nurse from its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, concluding the hospital had demonstrated it would've been too difficult to let her skip the jab.
A National Labor Relations Board prosecutor has urged an administrative law judge to overturn a Biden-era standard that made it more difficult for employers to unilaterally change the working conditions of its employees, claiming the standard wrongly overruled previous board decisions and departed from U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
Nike opposed a Washington retail worker's request for classwide pay and scheduling records in federal court, arguing the demands would require more than 1,400 hours of manual retrieval from computer systems and that he has not shown why 2,000 employees' records are needed for class certification.