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Showing posts with label supreme court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supreme court. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Will Hobby Lobby give Title VII fits?

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided  Burwell v.  Hobby Lobby Stores  [pdf] , holding that a closely held corporation is a “person” that ca...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

The Supreme Court’s opinion on cell phone privacy is a must-read for all employers

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It’s a rare day that I write a post of which the vast majority is a 900-word quote from a court opinion. Yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Su...
Monday, March 31, 2014

What Ben Franklin teaches us about employment law (the #SCOTUS edition)

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Some people head to the beach for Spring Break. I head to Philadelphia. An extended school break for my kids provides a good opportunity to ...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

When are preliminary and postliminary compensable? Supremes to let us know (maybe).

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions , to answer the following question (via SCOTUSblog ): Whe...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Clothes make the man, and the wage-and-hour lawsuit

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Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in its first employment law case of its October 2013 term, Sandifer v. United States S...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Ohio Supreme Court strikes blow to class action lawsuits

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In recent terms, the U.S. Supreme Court has shown some hostility to class action lawsuits.  In Wal-Mart v. Dukes , the Court concluded tha...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Vance v. Ball St. narrows employer liability for harassment

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In its prologue to yesterday Supreme Court opinion in Vance v. Ball. St. Univ. [pdf] , Justice Alito, writing for the five-member majority,...
Monday, June 24, 2013

BREAKING: SCOTUS decides on but-for causation standard for retaliation under Title VII

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In a busy, end-of-term day at the Supreme Court, the Court has issued its decision in University of Tex. S.W. Med. Ctr. v. Nassar . In this ...

BREAKING: SCOTUS issues decision in Vance v. Ball St. Univ.

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Hot off the presses, the Supreme Court just issued its decision in Vance v. Ball St. Univ. Via SCOTUS Blog, the Court held that “an employe...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Debunking myths of a pro-business Supreme Court

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Conventional wisdom says that the current iteration of the United States Supreme Court is pro-business. In support of this position, Adam Li...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

SCOTUS: Picking off individual plaintiffs moots wage and hour collective action

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The pickoff is one of the most dramatic defensive plays in baseball. It can single-handedly kill a rally. The tying run on first? One deft...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Who is a supervisor under Title VII? (Vance v. Ball St. Univ.)

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On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in one of the key employment cases it will hear this term— Vance v. Ball St. Univ. This cas...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Will the Supreme Court (re)define employer liability for harassment by supervisors? Vance v. Ball St. Univ.

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An employer’s liability for unlawful harassment depends, in part, on whether the alleged perpetrator of the harassment is a supervisor or a ...
Monday, June 18, 2012

BREAKING: SCOTUS rules pharmaceutical reps are exempt outside salespeople

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Today brings a bonus second post, because the Supreme Court just released its long-awaited ruling in Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp....
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Supreme Court finds religion, dismisses discrimination lawsuit

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Any decision issued by the Supreme Court in an employment case is newsworthy. Thus, even though Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church &a...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Supreme Court to hear case on scope of outside sales exemption (and hopefully scope of DOL’s power)

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Do you employ outside salespeople (pharmaceutical reps, for instance)? If so, then you are going to want to pay attention to what will trans...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Wal-Mart v. Dukes does not equal barefoot and pregnant

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I thought that I had my final say on Wal-Mart v. Dukes yesterday . Then, I read more of the commentary on the decision. For example, this cl...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The 7 key points for employers from the Supreme Court’s Wal-Mart v. Dukes opinion

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the certification of the class action in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes . Recall that Duk...
Monday, June 20, 2011

BREAKING NEWS: SCOTUS reverses class certification in Dukes v. Wal-Mart

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Just a few minutes ago, the Supreme Court delivered its opinion unanimously reversing the 9th Circuit’s class certification in the historica...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Reading the tea leaves: The Dukes v. Wal-Mart oral argument

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Today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Dukes v. Wal-Mart (transcript available here). Dukes will determine the propriety the certi...