| 22-333 |
U.S. Well Services, Inc. v. Scott Easom, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
causal-connection covid-19 employment-law mass-layoff natural-disaster plant-closing statutory-interpretation warn-act |
Does COVID-19 qualify as a natural disaster under the WARN Act's natural disaster exception? |
| 21-1443 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act |
Whether the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, can use the defense of sovereign immunity |
| 19-935 |
Carl Leeper v. Hamilton County Coal, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
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employee-recall employment-cessation employment-termination federal-law industry-standards layoffs objective-standard reasonable-expectation-of-recall terminations warn-act worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-act workforce-reduction |
Whether courts should distinguish between 'terminations' and 'layoffs' under the WARN Act by applying an objective standard that examines the employee… |