warn-act

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 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…