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Amazon is dialing up its battles with the NLRB, accusing the board in a new lawsuit of illegally interfering in a union election at a New York City warehouse and claiming the agency’s structure violates the U.S. Constitution, our colleague Daniel Wiessner reports.
Hunton Andrews Kurth filed the lawsuit in San Antonio federal court, asking a judge there to block the labor board from deciding a case that could force Amazon to bargain with the union. In 2022, the union won an election at the warehouse. The labor board last week upheld the results, the first and so far only successful union campaign in the company’s history.
Amazon’s lawsuit says the board’s in-house enforcement proceedings violate the constitutional separation of powers and the company’s right to a jury trial. Nearly 20 other companies including rocket maker SpaceX and Starbucks have made similar claims against the board in pending lawsuits and administrative cases.
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- In the latest twist stemming from Rudy Giuliani’s work for Donald Trump, his $2 million outstanding legal bill to the Trump campaign could go to two Georgia poll workers falsely accused of election fraud. Read more in this week’s Legal Fee Tracker.
- Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord will merge effective Jan. 1, creating a firm with more than 1,600 lawyers. The combined firm Troutman Pepper Locke will have 33 U.S. offices, in addition to offices in London and Brussels.
- TikTok and a group of creators on the popular short video app have tapped a pair of leading U.S. Supreme Court lawyers to battle the U.S. government over a law that could ban the platform in the U.S. Mayer Brown’s Andrew Pincus will lead arguments for TikTok, and Stanford Law’s Jeffrey Fisher will advocate for content creators at the Sept. 16 D.C. Circuit hearing.
- U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston rejected a fee request worth up to $34.1 million for a group of private antitrust lawyers who sued to stop the proposed $3.8 billion merger between JetBlue and Spirit. The airlines abandoned their merger in March after Young sided for the government in a lawsuit that it filed to stop the tie-up.
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That’s the number of California cities or counties since late June that have passed camping bans, while another nine are considering them or have already given initial approval, according to the National Homelessness Law Center. The U.S. Supreme Court on June 28 ruled camping bans are constitutional, emboldening cities to pursue them, our colleague Daniel Trotta reports. California has an estimated 180,000 homeless people.
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Amid fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling last June restricting the SEC’s ability to pursue enforcement actions seeking civil penalties, both the SEC and FINRA can rest a little easier today: A federal judge in Philadelphia has refused to block a disciplinary hearing against a broker who claimed the proceeding would violate his Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
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- He put a ring on it. Can he get it back? That’s the question Massachusetts’ highest court will tackle today when it hears arguments over who is entitled to a $70,000 Tiffany engagement ring after the would-be groom called off marriage plans and sued his former fiancee to get the pricey remnant of their romance back. Our colleague Nate Raymond has this first look.
- The 2nd Circuit will hear arguments in Donald Trump’s appeal of the $83.3 million defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, in a case that arose from his branding her a liar after she accused him of raping her.
- U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in D.C. will hold a hearing about the next steps in the DOJ’s Google search antitrust case. The judge ruled that Google was an illegal monopoly, and will now weigh imposing remedies. The DOJ has proposed a remedies hearing for April 2025.
- U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon in Manhattan will hold a case management conference in the FTC lawsuit seeking to block Coach parent Tapestry’s $8.5 billion deal to buy Michael Kors owner Capri. The agency has claimed the tie-up would eliminate “direct head-to-head competition” between the flagship brands of the two luxury handbag makers.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Texas sued the Biden administration in an effort to block a new rule that seeks to protect the privacy of women living in states that ban abortion who travel out of state for the procedure. The state is also asking the court in its lawsuit to block a separate rule issued in 2000.
- Massachusetts’ top state court said franchisees who operate 7-Eleven convenience stores are not the company’s employees under state wage law, a ruling that business groups said was necessary to preserve the franchise model.
- Alaska Superior Court Judge Josie Garton in Anchorage struck down a state law banning qualified nurse practitioners and physician assistants from performing abortions, siding with a legal challenge by a Planned Parenthood affiliate. The judge ruled the law violated Alaskans’ rights to privacy and equal protection under the state’s constitution.
- New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed a lawsuit against Snapchat owner Snap, alleging the messaging app’s policies and design features facilitate the sharing of child sexual exploitation material. A Snap spokesperson said the company was reviewing the complaint and would respond in court.
- Nvidia and Microsoft were hit with patent and antitrust claims in a lawsuit in Texas federal court by a company that makes data processing technology. Xockets claimed in its complaint that the tech giants had stolen patents used to fuel AI developments.
- More than a dozen former U.S. Coast Guard Academy students who say they were victims of sexual assault filed complaints seeking $130 million in damages, accusing the school of allowing sexual violence to go unchecked. A U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said the service could not discuss the complaints.
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Jaime L.M. Jones, Brenna Jenny and Matt Bergs of Sidley discuss how two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions provide new arguments for healthcare and life sciences companies facing enforcement actions. Read today’s Attorney Analysis.
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