After NLRB Decision, a Waiting Game for Employers, Workers

AFTERNOON UPDATE After NLRB Decision, a Waiting Game for Employers, Workers More than 30 workplace disputes, including one involving a national wholesale company, are now on hold in a federal appeals court in Washington as the U.S. Justice Department mulls whether to challenge a ruling that voided President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. In DOJ's E-Books Price Fixing Case, Holdout Publisher Agrees to Settle The holdout publisher in the Justice Department's e-books price fixing case agreed to a settlement with the government today, setting the stage for a showdown between Apple Inc. and federal prosecutors later this year. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Register Today: 10k Run & Walk Join the legal community in supporting the American Heart Association through Lawyers Have Heart! Saturday, June 8, 2013 at the Washington Harbour at Georgetown. Set up a team from your office and compete for bragging rights! Register Today. Click here Cruz Digs for Judicial Nominees' Views Attention judicial nominees: Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will want to know which U.S. Supreme Court justice's judicial philosophy -- from the Warren, Burger or Rehnquist courts -- is most analogous with yours. Lawyers Debate Meaning of 'Abstract' in Federal Circuit Patent Case A full panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments Friday in a case to determine the patent eligibility of a computer-assisted financial transaction method. SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT Need to transfer files from paper to mobile devices? Register today to learn more about Bridging the Mobile/Paper Gap to Increase Productivity . This informational webinar will review the trends, risks and challenges faced by law firms and corporate legal departments at the interface between mobile devices and paper. Then it will investigate the solutions designed by Canon U.S.A. to help mitigate those risks and challenges. Click here to register Chicago's Law and Economics Institute Gets a $10 Million Boost The University of Chicago Law School's Institute for Law and Economics isn't a year old, but already has received a significant financial boost. The school on February 7 announced a $10 million endowment for the institute, $7.5 million of which came from Ellen and Richard Sandor, chairman and chief executive officer of Environmental Financial Products LLC. D.C. Superior Court Judge Wright Appointed to Second Term More than 40 years ago, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Melvin Wright took a job at the courthouse as a clerk in the landlord and tenant and small claims division. This week, he was reappointed to a second-term on the bench.		Get the BLT on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Available now in the App Store. If you have Twitter account, you can now follow NLJ Editor in Chief David L. Brown at twitter.com/davidlbrownjr. Follow him for links to key stories and updates from the NLJ newsroom. You can also track news on Twitter from the NLJ's Washington bureau at twitter.com/legal_times.
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