September 18, 2024
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday struggled to find agreement between Starbucks Corp. and the National Labor Relations Board on the scope of the agency's power to penalize companies for violating employees' rights, as it considered the coffee chain's challenge to the agency's penalties over its firing of two unionizing workers.
August 30, 2024
Appeals courts have awakened from summertime slumber and crammed their early autumn calendars with arguments of national significance, which Law360 previews in this edition of Wheeling & Appealing. We're also recapping August's top appellate decisions, exploring new polling about U.S. Supreme Court opinions and testing your knowledge of Fifth Circuit history.
August 27, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board's order making employers pay for "direct or foreseeable" harms that emanate from federal labor law violations poses "serious constitutional problems," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups contended, submitting an unopposed bid to raise this argument in a Third Circuit case involving Starbucks.
February 13, 2024
The National Labor Relations Board urged the Third Circuit to uphold an order requiring Starbucks to rehire two Philadelphia workers after finding they were fired for union organizing and agitating about improving working conditions, saying the court should reject several constitutional challenges the company made about the board's powers.