Posts tagged Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
US Supreme Court’s ruling in strike case puts unions on defense
June 8, 2023 // However, workers aren’t shielded unless they take “reasonable precautions” to protect employers’ property from “foreseeable, aggravated, and imminent danger due to the sudden cessation of work.” A 1959 Supreme Court ruling established that courts must defer to the board's initial judgment if it’s even arguable that the legal dispute arises from a strike or other legally-protected worker actions. The lawsuit was essentially an attempt to overturn that precedent. The court didn’t go quite that far (although some conservative justices invited the opportunity to do so in a future case).