Several Christian organizations' fights for exemptions to workplace antidiscrimination laws have converged before the Fourth Circuit, giving the court an opportunity to establish a definitive position on the complicated legal tension between the rights of religious employers and LGBTQ+ workers.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to again weigh what makes workers engaged in interstate transportation and therefore exempt from federal arbitration requirements, with two attorneys returning to the high court after they previously argued a separate case involving the issue. Here, Law360 takes a look at the two.
The Third Circuit on Monday sided with a nuclear power company in a dispute with an electrical workers union over contributions to employee healthcare premiums, holding that the union couldn't force issues out of court because their disagreement was outside the scope of the collective bargaining agreement's arbitration provision.