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- In January, workers at a Philadelphia Whole Foods voted to unionize, the first successful effort at an Amazon-owned grocery store.
- That same night, President Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, leaving it without the quorum needed to certify union elections.
- Whole Foods quickly challenged the vote, citing the board's inability to act and alleging unfair interference by the union.
- Dozens of companies have since filed similar appeals, exploiting the board's paralysis to stall organizing efforts. Since Wilcox's removal, employers have lodged at least 50 appeals with the NLRB challenging unionization elections by workers to an agency that cannot resolve them, the Reuters review found.
- The appeals have been filed at a point in the process when union drives are particularly vulnerable. In at least 22 cases, employers have argued in their appeals that union elections cannot be certified while the board has too few members.
- John Kruzel and Daniel Wiessner have more.
| - The 9th Circuit will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging an Idaho law that requires public-school students to use the bathroom corresponding to their sex assigned at birth.
- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to consider whether to advance the nominations of several of President Trump's judicial nominees including Jennifer Mascott, who is up for a seat on the 3rd Circuit.
- The ACLU will urge U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston to order the release of a Salvadoran man who has been detained by ICE without a bond hearing since September 18. The man, Jose Arnulfo Guerrero Orellana, is the lead plaintiff in a proposed class action seeking to vindicate the right of thousands of other migrants in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire who, under a new Trump administration policy, would be denied the right to a bond hearing in immigration court. Read the motion.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan dismissed a lawsuit that sought $900 million in damages from law firms Dentons and Boies Schiller for allegedly misleading a client for years about the enforceability of a contract with Senegal's state-owned electric power company. Read the ruling.
- Using AI for admissions essays is often discouraged or prohibited. For aspiring attorneys hoping to land a seat at two U.S. law schools next fall, it's an opportunity to stand out from the crowd. Karen Sloan has more here.
- Eve, a San Francisco-based startup that makes AI tools for plaintiffs' law firms, said it has raised $103 million at a $1 billion valuation. Read more here.
- Jenner & Block hired Andrew Rohrbach, one of the Manhattan federal prosecutors who resigned in April after the DOJ pressured them to admit wrongdoing when they refused to drop a criminal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Read more here.
- More moves: Employment partner Daniel Spencer moved to Duane Morris from O'Hagan Meyer … Buchalter added real estate partner Jemima McCullum from Gordon Thomas Honeywell.
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That's the amount of prison time a California woman was sentenced to after pleading guilty to threatening to injure a federal judge in Texas, warning him to "watch his back" after he made a ruling, which was later reversed, to suspend the approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in 2023. Read more here. |
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"I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected. Is he correct?"
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—U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston ruling that the Trump administration acted unconstitutionally by adopting a policy of revoking the visas of foreign students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy, and arresting, detaining and deporting them. Read the order. |
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Redgrave's Robert Keeling, Amy Hanke and Ava Guo offer insights for in-house counsel on navigating a government investigation. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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