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October 06, 2025
The Sixth Circuit declined on Monday to revive a former paper mill fire chief's suit alleging his union representative refused in bad faith to contest his termination for allegedly threatening coworkers, finding the representative made his decision after getting reports from officials that the appellant's colleagues felt unsafe around him.
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October 06, 2025
A California federal judge should block the Trump administration from carrying out its threats to use the government shutdown as an occasion to fire another large swath of federal workers, two unions argued, requesting a temporary restraining order that would protect the jobs of the federal workers they represent.
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October 06, 2025
A coalition of the labor and solar energy industry players on Monday alleged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Constitution and federal law by canceling a $7 billion program providing solar equipment to low-income households.
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October 06, 2025
A nonunion employee organization at SkyWest urged a Utah federal court to preserve its counterclaims accusing the Association of Flight Attendants, a union organizer and former flight attendants of conspiring to violate the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in their organizing efforts, arguing that the group adequately pled its claims.
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October 06, 2025
Amtrak and a labor union have agreed to settle a Black conductor's suit alleging she was blocked from securing senior union committee assignments out of bias against her race, age and gender, according to a Monday docket entry in Connecticut federal court.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Fourth Circuit decision concluding that Maryland wasn't contractually bound to provide benefits to employees upon retirement, turning away a case that challenged the state's transition of retirees' prescription drug benefits from a state subsidy to Medicare.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education violated its workers' freedom of speech by altering their out-of-office email messages to blame the government shutdown on Democrats, the workers' union claimed in a complaint filed in Washington, D.C., federal court.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up an Oregon distillery's challenge to how federal courts weigh whether to affirm National Labor Relations Board decisions, declining Monday to place a case on its docket that questioned what is known as the substantial evidence standard of review.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request on Monday to review baseball's century-old exemption from antitrust law in a case from players accusing Major League Baseball and its teams of colluding to pay minor leaguers "poverty level" wages.
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October 06, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear a case that BDO USA LLP claimed could set a "dangerous precedent" for public-company auditors, leaving intact a Second Circuit decision allowing the securities fraud suit against the accounting firm to move forward.
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October 03, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, and the ability of a landlord to sue the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly refusing to deliver mail.
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October 03, 2025
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Oct. 3 signed into law legislation giving gig drivers the right to unionize and negotiate certain job terms and conditions, after state leaders reached a deal with Uber and Lyft to facilitate its passage.
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October 03, 2025
After a busy summer of emergency rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its October 2025 term Monday with only a few big-ticket cases on its docket — over presidential authorities, transgender athletes and election law — in what might be a strategically slow start to a potentially momentous term. Here, Law360 looks at four of the most important cases on the court's docket so far.
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October 03, 2025
The city of Portland asked an Oregon federal judge Friday to toss a nonprofit's challenge to the city's requirement for its janitorial, security and industrial laundry contractors to sign labor peace agreements with unions, telling the judge the requirement isn't preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.
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October 03, 2025
The Amazon Labor Union has asked a New York federal judge to let it defend a New York law empowering state enforcers to fill in for the beleaguered National Labor Relations Board, saying Amazon's bid to nullify the new law imperils an unfair firing charge it filed with the state.
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October 03, 2025
A Fifth Circuit panel is standing by its refusal to compel a Texas federal judge to block National Labor Relations Board litigation that accuses Amazon of snubbing a union in New York, preserving its decision that the injunction dispute fell outside its jurisdiction and denying Amazon's rehearing request.
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October 03, 2025
A cannabis retailer challenging the constitutionality of a California law that requires marijuana businesses to have labor peace agreements with unions is urging the Ninth Circuit to revive its lawsuit against the state.
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October 03, 2025
Unions have tapped into a new segment, organizing workers at indoor climbing gyms at a brisk pace as the fast-growing sport's move from the fitness industry's enthusiast fringes to the mainstream drives workers to seek a greater say in their jobs.
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October 03, 2025
Several groups sued Friday in California federal court to block the Trump administration's recent action slapping on a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, saying the new price tag was unconstitutionally ordered and will hurt more than just America's tech industry.
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October 03, 2025
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of presidential authority appear increasingly likely to define his time leading the court.
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October 03, 2025
In the coming week, attorneys should keep an eye out for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a California-based National Labor Relations Board matter involving a gas supplier. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters coming up in the Golden State.
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October 03, 2025
The full Eighth Circuit will not review a split panel decision ruling that taxpayers could challenge a Minnesota school district's paid leave policy that allows teachers to take paid time off to work for their union.
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October 02, 2025
The Ninth Circuit Thursday vacated a U.S. Department of Labor Benefits Review Board decision awarding a National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. worker $145,500 in fees and costs because his injury claims were still disputed when he settled, with a dissent saying apportioning the success of the settlement is impractical.
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October 02, 2025
Uniform supplier Vestis Corp. and food and facilities services giant Aramark can't shed proposed shareholder class action claims that they misled investors about Vestis' operations and customer relationships prior to its 2023 spinoff from Aramark.
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October 02, 2025
The Fifth Circuit should rethink its denial of the Office and Professional Employees International Union joining a challenge to the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality, the union said, after the board said it won't appeal a recent ruling involving SpaceX that facilitates employers' bids to block NLRB cases.