October 26, 2024
An en banc Fifth Circuit majority on Friday overturned a National Labor Relations Board decision that a tweet Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent during a United Auto Workers unionization campaign violated federal labor law, while the court's dissenting members criticized the majority's decision as "logically incoherent."
January 25, 2024
Some judges on the Fifth Circuit seemed skeptical Thursday that a tweet Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent during a United Auto Workers unionization campaign violated federal labor law, with judges probing the significance of social media and how courts should evaluate National Labor Relations Board cases that implicate the First Amendment.
October 23, 2023
The United Auto Workers asked the Fifth Circuit to stand behind its enforcement of an NLRB order finding Tesla CEO Elon Musk unlawfully tweeted about union dues, challenging the carmaker's claim that the company didn't violate federal labor law because Musk clarified his statement wasn't a threat.
October 16, 2023
Tesla is twisting the National Labor Relations Board's decision that found a tweet about union dues from CEO Elon Musk was unlawful, the board contended, urging the Fifth Circuit to support the NLRB's ruling after the court granted an en banc rehearing.
September 07, 2023
A National Labor Relations Board's decision ordering Elon Musk to delete a tweet asking Tesla employees why they should pay union dues is a "blatant viewpoint discrimination" that the full Fifth Circuit should correct, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and two other groups said.
August 31, 2023
Elon Musk's tweet questioning why Tesla employees at a California plant would pay union dues is protected by the First Amendment, the company said, telling the full Fifth Circuit that a panel erred in upholding the National Labor Relations Board's ruling to delete the tweet.
July 21, 2023
The full Fifth Circuit will reconsider a panel's decision finding that Elon Musk's tweet about union dues was an illegal threat to Tesla workers organizing a union at a California plant at the time, according to an order issued Friday.
May 31, 2023
The Fifth Circuit shouldn't reconsider its decision finding that Elon Musk's tweet about union dues was an unlawful threat to workers, the National Labor Relations Board argued, telling the appeals court that its ruling doesn't contradict precedent.
May 16, 2023
The Fifth Circuit must reconsider its backing of a National Labor Relations Board decision that deemed a tweet by Elon Musk an illegal threat, Tesla argued, saying the appeals court shouldn't rely on the board's conclusions about the lack of First Amendment protection for the tweet.
March 31, 2023
A Fifth Circuit panel unanimously rejected bids by Tesla and the United Auto Workers to review a National Labor Relations Board decision Friday, affirming instead the board's findings that a tweet by Elon Musk unlawfully threatened workers and that Tesla did not illegally solicit complaints from workers.