Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Labor & Employment Law : From 10/01/00 To 07/01/01
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | POLLARD v. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. |
| Date: | 06/04/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-763 |
| Summary: | Front pay awards are not an element of compensatory damages under the Civil Rights Act of 1991 so they are not subject to the statutory damages cap. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law |
| Title: | US v. CLEVELAND INDIANS BASEBALL CO. |
| Date: | 04/17/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-203 |
| Summary: | Back wages are subject to FICA and FUTA taxes in the year the wages were actually paid, and not the year that they should have been paid. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Government Contracts, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | LUJAN v. G & G FIRE SPRINKLERS, INC. |
| Date: | 04/17/01 |
| Case Number: | 00-152 |
| Summary: | California Labor Code provisions allowing state to require contractors to withhold payment to subcontractors who fail to comply with labor code do not violate due process because subcontractor may recover fees by filing a breach of contract suit against the state. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | CIRCUIT CITY STORES, INC. v. ADAMS |
| Date: | 03/21/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1379 |
| Summary: | The Federal Arbitration Act, at 9 USC 1, does not exempt all employment contracts subject to Congress' commerce power, but rather only the employment contracts of transportation workers. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | BD. OF TR. OF THE UNIV. OF ALABAMA v. GARRETT |
| Date: | 02/21/01 |
| Case Number: | 99-1240 |
| Summary: | State employees may not sue in federal court to recover money damages for the State's failure to comply with the ADA because Congress' abrogation of the Eleventh Amendment was not based upon an identified pattern of irrational and unconstitutional state discrimination in employment against the disabled. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law, TRANSPORTATION |
| Title: | E. ASSOC.COAL CORP. v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AM., DISTRICT 17 |
| Date: | 11/28/00 |
| Case Number: | 99-1038 |
| Summary: | Public policy, as evidenced by Department of Transportation regulations, is to allow employers the freedom to rehabilitate truck drivers who test positive for drugs, so the arbitration award reinstating an employee who twice tested positive is not contrary to public policy. |