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25A725 PG Publishing Co., Inc. dba Pittsburgh Post-Gazette v. National Labor Relations Board, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-19 Application circuit-split collective-bargaining consequential-damages labor-relations nlrb thryv-doctrine Whether the National Labor Relations Board may award consequential damages and find bad faith in collective bargaining based solely on the substance o…
25-669 Timothy Rosin v. Kimberly Hill Fourth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-transfer collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment property-interest school-principal 1. Whether Rosin's involuntary transfer was: 1) an administrative transfer, or 2) a punitive/disciplinary demotion? 2. Whether a certified public-sch…
25A298 The Boeing Company v. Southwest Airline Pilots Association, on Behalf of Itself and its Members Texas 2025-09-16 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining labor-union preemption railway-labor-act state-law-tort third-party-claim Whether the Railway Labor Act preempts state-law tort claims brought by a labor union against a third party that require interpretation of a collectiv…
25-209 Elizabeth Spokoiny v. University of Washington Medical Center Ninth Circuit 2025-08-21 Denied Response Waived circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-discrimination fmla title-ix title-vii Whether federal courts of appeal are divided on standards for sexual harassment, disability discrimination, and collective bargaining agreement interp…
25-5359 Robert Joyce v. Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-08-14 Denied IFP arbitration-award collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employment-termination federal-rules labor-relations Whether the Court of Appeals improperly dismissed Petitioner's federal court challenge to union and Con Edison actions involving employment terminatio…
24-1101 Ali Bahreman v. Allegiant Air, LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-23 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights labor-organization railway-labor-act union-representation Do a union and employer violate the Railway Labor Act by requiring non-members to financially support a union in a manner not authorized by statute, a…
24-976 Alaris Health at Boulevard East v. National Labor Relations Board Third Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contract-negotiation due-process employment-terms labor-relations nlrb-authority Whether clauses in an expired collective bargaining agreement form part of the status quo that must be maintained after contract expiration, and wheth…
24A678 Gerald Nelson v. New York City Transit Authority, et al. Second Circuit 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining duty-of-fair-representation federal-removal labor-management-act pro-se-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether federal courts improperly exercised subject matter jurisdiction in a labor dispute involving a collective bargaining agreement and duty of fai…
24-511 Brent Electric Company, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 584 Tenth Circuit 2024-11-05 Denied collective-bargaining council-on-industrial-relations interest-arbitration mandatory-subjects national-labor-relations-act union-agreement Whether a collective bargaining agreement awarded through interest arbitration is enforceable as to nonmandatory subjects of bargaining contained ther…
24-5789 Saretta Mildred Gross v. United Parcel Service, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP collective-bargaining employment-discrimination jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss pro-se-plaintiff sexual-harassment Whether a district court errs in dismissing a pro se plaintiff's complaint without fully considering incorporated earlier complaints and allegations o…
24-5781 Marquice D. Robinson v. Michael Holman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adverse-action circuit-split collective-bargaining employment-law summary-judgment tenth-amendment Whether a violation of a collective bargaining agreement constitutes an adverse employment action and whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals er…
24-370 Valley Health System, LLC, dba Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, et al. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2024-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-interpretation collective-bargaining dues-checkoff labor-law ninth-circuit-review nlrb-deference Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in deferring to the National Labor Relations Board's interpretation of the National Labor Relations Act regarding term…
24-191 Bahig Saliba v. Allied Pilots Association Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived aviation-law collective-bargaining federal-aviation-act labor-representation medical-certification private-right-of-action Whether a collective bargaining agent has authority to negotiate terms impacting FAA pilot medical certification standards and whether the Federal Avi…
23-1113 Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union, Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-04-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) affirmative-consent collective-bargaining compelled-speech first-amendment labor-union labor-unions public-employee public-sector waiver-of-rights Can a public sector labor union and government employer unilaterally waive public employees' First Amendment rights through a collective bargaining ag…
23A795 Atishma Kant, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 721, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Presumed Complete collective-bargaining first-amendment janus-precedent section-1983 state-action union-dues Whether a public sector labor union acts as a 'state actor' under Section 1983 when collecting union dues through a collective bargaining agreement wi…
23-760 John Baker, et al. v. CSX Transportation, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining disciplinary-process due-process employment employment-rights family-medical-leave-act fmla-compliance labor-law medical-certification statutory-interpretation statutory-protections Whether an employee is prejudiced when an employer substitutes a contractual disciplinary process for compliance with the individual's statutory prote…
23-5367 Rebecca Wu v. Twin Rivers Unified School District California 2023-08-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment california-law civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employment-status misclassification public-employee tenure tenure-classification Does the United States Constitution allow for an Indefinite probationary classification in California law of a public employee or Teacher
23-5126 Farkhan Mahmood Shah v. American Airlines, Inc., et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-18 Denied IFP arbitration civil-rights collective-bargaining diversity-jurisdiction due-process employment employment-discrimination first-amendment misrepresentation religious-discrimination summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred by explicitly relying on American Airlines' misrepresentation of the terms of t…
22-1096 Ariadna Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers Local 504, IFT-AFT/AFL-CIO, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent employee-rights first-amendment government-employer janus-v-afscme union-membership waiver waiver-doctrine May a government employer withhold money from an employee on behalf of a union based solely on the employee's signature on a union membership card whe…
22-1009 Barbara Kolkowski v. Ashtabula Area Teacher's Association, et al. Ohio 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process fourteenth-amendment free-speech grievance-process individual-rights labor-law liberty-interest public-employment statutory-interpretation Whether a public employee in Ohio under a collective bargaining agreement providing for binding arbitration has the Constitutional right either fundam…
22-935 Transervice Logistics, Inc., et al. v. Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Amici (1) administrative-law circuit-split collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-termination evergreen-clause labor-agreement labor-law notice-requirement notice-requirements Whether a notice of termination for a collective bargaining agreement must contain a clear statement of an intent to terminate the agreement
22-577 Jodee Wright v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech labor-law public-sector union-dues Do the constitutional guarantees of Freedom of Speech and Due Process of law create an affirmative duty for government employers to ensure employees' …
22-498 Kristine Kurk v. Los Rios Classified Employees Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-28 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights collective-bargaining compelled-association due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association public-employment state-statute union-membership Does the First Amendment protect a public employee's right to resign union membership at will?
22-494 Melodie DePierro v. Las Vegas Police Protective Association Metro, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining consent first-amendment free-speech government-employer janus-precedent janus-v-afscme union-dues Can the government and a union restrict when employees can exercise their First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech without the employees' a…
22-476 Fraternal Order of Police, Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, D.C. Police Union v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-law contract-clause due-process impairment-of-contract police police-discipline takings Whether the removal of police officers' disciplinary rights contained in their collective bargaining agreement substantially impairs that agreement in…
22-221 Jose Mendoza, Jr. v. Amalgamated Transit Union International, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-forum labor-management-relations-act labor-management-reporting-and-disclosure-act preemption state-law-claims state-law-preemption union-constitution union-constitutions union-governance Does § 301 of the LMRA completely preempt state law claims and remedies by union members against their unions to enforce union constitutions despite t…
22-219 Cara O'Callaghan, et al. v. Michael V. Drake, in His Official Capacity as President of the University of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment government-worker janus-precedent janus-v-afscme labor-law labor-rights union-dues Whether a union can trap a government worker into paying dues for longer than a year under Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018)
22-220 Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Fifth Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Amici (2) antiunion-animus arbitration-procedures circuit-split collective-bargaining mandatory-arbitration railway-labor-act statutory-interpretation union-representation union-representatives Whether union 'representatives' under 45 U.S.C. § 152 Third means all union officers (as the court below held), only those union officers serving as c…
22-116 Connecticut State Police Union v. James Rovella, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection Second Circuit 2022-08-08 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contracts-clause freedom-of-information police-accountability police-misconduct public-accountability public-sector retroactive-legislation Whether Connecticut Public Act 20-1 violates the Contracts Clause
21-1334 Columbia Export Terminal, LLC v. International Longshore and Warehouse Union, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-07 Dismissed Response Waived arbitration arbitration-provisions collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-union lmra-preemption preemption rico rico-claims Does-section-301-of-the-LMRA-preempt-RICO-claims
21-1151 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination fourteenth-amendment procedural-fairness property reinstatement Whether Respondent School District of Philadelphia discharged appellant without due process
21-278 John Krakowski, et al. v. Allied Pilots Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-08-25 Denied Response Waived 11-usc-1113 bankruptcy-court collective-bargaining discrimination duty-of-fair-representation labor-union railway-labor-act seniority-system Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a dis…
20-1661 Arthur O. Armstrong v. School District of Philadelphia Third Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied 14th-amendment collective-bargaining due-process employment employment-law fourteenth-amendment grievance-procedure official-discrimination procedural-rights property-rights Whether petitioner was discharged from teaching position without due process
20-1494 Nob Hill General Stores, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause ninth-circuit precedent precedential-value publication-rules Whether a contractual 'notwithstanding' clause precludes the applicability of competing contractual language
20-1120 Melissa Belgau, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 collective-bargaining color-of-law employee-rights first-amendment public-employees section-1983 union-dues Whether it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to seize union dues or fees from employees' wages without proof the employees waived the…
20-7104 Vincent Lyle Badkin v. Lockheed Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement duty-of-fair-representation judicial-review labor-management-relations labor-management-relations-act section-301 wrongful-termination Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in misquoting the plaintiff's complaint and incorrectly opining that the plaintiff alleged the union …
20-392 Fatmata Kamara v. New Jersey, Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of State Police New Jersey 2020-09-25 Denied administrative-law civil-rights collective-bargaining conscientious-employee-protection-act due-process employment-discrimination employment-law law-against-discrimination police-misconduct state-police-procedure time-bar Termination-without-due-process
19-1334 Signode Industrial Group LLC, et al. v. Harold Stone, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Denied circuit-split cnh-industrial collective-bargaining contract-interpretation contract-law contract-termination employee-benefits labor-law lifetime-benefits m-and-g-polymers vested-benefits vested-rights Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with decisions reached by at least two other federal courts of appeals and in spite of this …
19-1227 Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting Did the Sixth Circuit misapply M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett and related cases to find that Group 2 surviving spouses have no right to healthcare b…
19-7934 Kathleen Betts v. United Airlines, Inc. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration-procedure arbitration-procedures civil-procedure collective-bargaining court-review due-process eeoc-charge employment judicial-proceedings lower-court pro-se-litigation retaliation seventh-circuit Whether the Seventh Circuit so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower cour…
19-341 Augustine Pacheco, et al. v. Honeywell International Inc. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied Response Waived age-65-promise collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation contract-law explicit-terms federal-common-law healthcare-vesting implied-terms industry-practice retirement-healthcare vesting Whether the Eighth Circuit conflicts with this Court's holding that retirement healthcare vesting may be proved by 'explicit terms', 'implied terms', …
18-9426 Paul Duriso v. West Gulf Maritime Association, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employee-rights grievance-process ila-constitution labor-law legal-jurisdiction maritime-law statute-of-limitations texas-civil-practice-and-remedies-code texas-code Whether the laws of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code regarding statute of limitations have been disregarded in the cases of Rhonda Stelly v.…
18-1415 ASARCO LLC v. United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC Ninth Circuit 2019-05-10 Denied arbitration-authority arbitrator-authority arbitrator-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process judicial-review labor-arbitration labor-law no-add-provision remedial-limits remedial-power scope-of-authority waiver Whether an arbitrator can reform a collective bargaining agreement by adding language despite a contractual provision prohibiting the arbitrator from …
18-1265 September Ends Co., et al. v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split civil-procedure collective-bargaining erisa erisa-pension erisa-pension-obligations erisa-successor-liability federal-common-law labor-law pension-obligations state-law statutory-interpretation successor-liability takings What is the proper standard for successor liability for unpaid ERISA pension obligations?
18-1108 Stephanie C. Stucky v. Dwight Takeno, et al. Hawaii 2019-02-25 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-procedure collective-bargaining due-process labor-relations mootness prohibited-practice prohibited-practices voluntary-cessation Petitioner did not receive due process when the Prohibited Practice Complaint was dismissed as moot, despite the respondents voluntarily ceasing viola…
18-1092 Associated Builders and Contractors of California Cooperation Committee, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights collective-bargaining first-amendment free-speech government-speech legislative-amendment private-donation private-speech proxy subsidy viewpoint-discrimination Does a plausible allegation of viewpoint-discrimination-by-proxy state a valid First Amendment claim?
18-1083 Garda CL Northwest, Inc., fka AT Systems, Inc. v. Lawrence Hill, et al. Washington 2019-02-21 Denied collective-bargaining-agreement labor-management-relations-act-301 mental-state preemption unreasonableness willfulness collective-bargaining contract-interpretation federal-labor-law labor-preemption labor-relations lmra mental-state preemption statutory-construction waiver-interpretation Whether a state labor claim that requires the plaintiff to show that an employer acted with 'willfulness,' 'unreasonableness,' or other mental state, …
18-1065 Interpipe Contracting, Inc. v. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) as-applied-challenge chamber-of-commerce-v-brown civil-rights collective-bargaining labor-speech metropolitan-life-v-massachusetts minimum-labor-standards nlra-preemption project-labor-agreements union-organizing worker-consent Advocacy opposing 'top down' union organizing campaigns that seek to impose project labor agreements (PLAs)
18-1042 Frank Gonzalez v. City of Hialeah, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied city-charter city-employment civil-rights collective-bargaining constitutional-rights due-process employment for-cause-removal probationary-employee procedural-due-process procedural-rights property-interest public-employment reemployment-list stigma Whether there is a federal common law standard to determine the existence of a property interest in city employment, without applying state laws, requ…
18-812 Teamsters Local 210 Affiliated Health and Insurance Fund v. Leon Silverman, as Trustee of the Union Mutual Medical Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreements federal-claims jurisdiction jurisdictional-scope labor-management-relations-act labor-management-relations-act-301a labor-organization national-labor-policy signatory supplemental-jurisdiction union-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust union-sponsored-benefit-trust-fund Did the Second Circuit impermissibly expand the jurisdiction of LMRA § 301(a) and drastically alter national labor policy
18-579 Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Judy Schurke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) arbitration-requirement civil-procedure collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement federal-jurisdiction labor-management-relations-act labor-preemption labor-relations ninth-circuit-ruling preemption railway-labor-act state-law-claim state-law-claims Whether federal courts lack authority to inquire into the nature and scope of an alleged state law claim in determining whether resolution of that cla…
18-467 Barbara Fletcher, et al. v. Honeywell International, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response Waived ambiguity-principles circuit-split civil-rights collective-bargaining collective-bargaining-agreement contract-interpretation due-process erisa federal-common-law labor-management-relations-act retiree-healthcare supreme-court-precedent Whether collectively-bargained retiree healthcare benefits may be implied and do not require unequivocal contract language
18-198 Lucio Celli v. New York City Department of Education, et al. Second Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-regulations cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining contract-clause due-process grievance-process judicial-bias judiciary-act judiciary-act-of-1789 racial-animus standing taylor-law Whether a plaintiff should be allowed to plead facts related to a collective bargaining agreement and administrative regulations under §1981 and Title…