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SpaceX Exploration: Constitutional Challenge to NLRB Structure

Following several complaints filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), SpaceX has mounted a constitutional challenge against the structure of the NLRB. Specifically, SpaceX contends that NLRB administrative judges...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Ripple Effects Of SEC Adjudication Ruling May Be Momentous

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Suppose that your nemesis has a legal beef with you, and you learn that the law allows him to appoint one of his employees to judge the case. Shocked? You should be. Yet federal agency adjudication works the same way. How...more

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SCOTUS Decision Will Weaken Labor Board’s Attempts to Impose Financial Penalties on Employers But Spares NLRB From Catastrophic...

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Perhaps lost in the shuffle of a string of blockbuster Supreme Court decisions was a June 27 ruling that will undermine the National Labor Relations Board’s attempts to impose financial penalties on employers – though it...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Two Blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court Decisions May Spell End of NLRB’s Expansion of Reach of NLRA as Well as How Agency Prosecutes...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two blockbuster decisions last week, both of which likely will curtail the ability of federal agencies, including the NLRB, to prosecute cases and expand the law. In a 6-3 decision announced...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The End of SEC Administrative Proceedings? The Supreme Court’s Jarkesy Decision Prohibits the Agency’s Use of ALJs in Enforcement...

On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court decided in SEC v. Jarkesy that where the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) brings enforcement actions for civil penalties, it must do so in the federal courts, as opposed to before...more

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Supreme Court Finds SEC’s In-House Adjudicative Proceedings Violated Seventh Amendment Right to Jury Trial

On June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States held that defendants in securities fraud cases brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are entitled to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment—a...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

In SEC v. Jarkesy, Supreme Court Leaves Open Constitutional Challenges Related to FTC Structure and Process

In a much-watched case concerning the administrative state, on June 27, the Supreme Court decided in SEC v. Jarkesy that defendants facing a fraud suit by the SEC have a Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in an Article...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Launching into New Territory (Continued): SpaceX Wins Temporary Relief at Fifth Circuit

On May 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in Space Exploration Technologies Corp., v. NLRB, No. 24-40315 (5th Cir. 2024), granted SpaceX’s Emergency Motion for Injunction Pending Appeal, essentially...more

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The Practical NLRB Advisor: Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 edition of the Advisor is a compilation of good and bad news for employers. On the good news side, we discuss several current challenges to administrative agency authority in general, and the National Labor...more

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SCOTUS Predictions: Supreme Court Set to Limit Labor Board’s Reach Over Employers in Surprising Way

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An impending Supreme Court decision is poised to transform how the National Labor Relations Board decides cases and may fundamentally alter the course of labor relations as we know it. We predict that a SCOTUS decision to be...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Launching into New Territory: SpaceX Claims NLRB Unconstitutionally Structured

Shortly after the New Year, on January 4, 2024, Space Exploration Technologies Corp.—or “SpaceX”—filed a complaint in the District Court for the Southern District of Texas alleging that an administrative complaint filed by...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

SCOTUS endorses "existential" challenge to administrative agencies

Labor lawyers, take note. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that doesn’t address employment law directly, but it certainly does indirectly. Labor lawyers in particular need to watch this. In Axon...more

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Fed Vice Chair Resigns in Wake of Trading Scandal

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Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida is heading to the door earlier than planned in what appears to be continuing fallout from 2020 trades he made “as the central bank was poised to rescue financial markets.” Clarida corrected his...more

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Environmental Case Law Update – 1st Six Months of 2017

On March 21, 2017, the United States Supreme Court decided the case of National Labor Relations Board v. SW General, Inc. This case concerns the operation and application of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA). ...more

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