Tag: Supreme Court

May 30, 2024

In Maia v. IEW Construction Group, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided a critical issue in employer’s favor regarding the “look-back” periods and availability of liquidated damages under New Jersey’s Wage and Hour Law (WHL) and Wage Payment Law (WPL). […]

September 25, 2023

Just how much chaos could the Supreme Court toss into the tax system? The answer: Quite a bit, Pro Tax’s Brian Faler notes this morning, pointing to the upcoming arguments in the tax case known as Moore v. United States. […]

June 2, 2023

On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held that federal law does not preempt the right of an employer to sue a striking union for damages in state court if the union failed to take […]

May 26, 2023

On April 14, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion that is expected to result in historic changes to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) use of in-house administrative law judges (ALJs). In Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade […]

October 24, 2022

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court held oral argument to address the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hewitt v. Helix Energy Sols. Group, Inc., 15 F.4th 289 (5th Cir. 2021), cert. granted, […]

October 10, 2022

The California Supreme Court recently held that the City of Oakland’s waste management franchise fees may constitute illegal taxes that fail to meet the state’s constitutional voter approval requirements. Accordingly, the state supreme court upheld the reversal of a trial […]

January 13, 2022

Q: Did the U.S. Supreme Court issue a ruling in the challenge to OSHA’s vaccine and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS) and CMS interim final rule (IFR)? A: Yes. On January 13, 2022, the Court granted the applications for stays […]

November 3, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1 ordered a New York court to reconsider a ruling that upheld a state regulation requiring employer health plans to cover abortions. We’ve gathered articles on the news from SHRM Online and other media […]

October 22, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear two challenges to the Texas abortion law on an expedited basis and set oral arguments for Nov. 1. The high court, however, left the Texas law in place, the second time […]

October 4, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider a First Amendment challenge to a campaign finance law that restricts repayment of candidates’ personal loans to their campaigns. The high court will hear a case brought by Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of […]

September 2, 2021

Following the death of George Floyd, the nation focused attention on the enormous problems of police violence and racism in law enforcement, but there is a failure to put blame where much belongs: on the United States Supreme Court. Many […]

August 30, 2021

Abortion providers asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to intervene after a federal appeals court over the weekend had stymied their attempts to stop a far-reaching Texas abortion law from going into effect. The Center for Reproductive Rights, Planned […]

July 6, 2021

The Supreme Court decided three cases concerning the Fourth Amendment during the October 2020 term. They shared several characteristics. First, the police lost all of them, which is unusual for a court that generally has sided with law enforcement in […]

June 25, 2021

The Supreme Court has just issued a major ruling that is a significant win for defendants in data privacy and data breach litigations. In Ramirez v. TransUnion, the Supreme Court reconsidered the question of what constitutes an “injury in fact” […]

June 17, 2021

The Affordable Care Act remains intact after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday that challengers do not have standing to challenge the law’s requirement to carry health insurance. Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief […]

June 4, 2021

The substance over form doctrine (and related step transaction and economic substance doctrines) are often invoked by courts to disallow tax consequences that seem too good to be true. Courts have struggled for years with how to properly apply these […]

April 22, 2021

More than 60 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state of Alabama could not require the NAACP to disclose its membership list. In NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, the court unanimously held that the civil rights […]

April 2, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that Facebook’s notification pop-up messages did not violate the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The court unanimously upheld a narrow definition of an automated dialer, stating that Facebook’s software fell short of […]

March 30, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron can intervene to defend an invalidated state abortion law after no other state official would continue to defend it. Cameron sought to intervene after the […]

December 9, 2020

The US Supreme Court denied injunctive relief Tuesday to Pennsylvania Republicans seeking to block certification of the state’s election results on the ground that the expansion of mail-in ballots violated the state constitution. The petition was filed by Republican Representative […]