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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the denial of black lung benefits, holding that under the Black Lung Benefits Act a miner can receive credit for […]
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Where a woman argued she should have been treated as a 50-year-old by the administrative judge, because she was six months and 17 days away from her 50th birthday, her […]
Amazon challenges constitutionality of NLRB
Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store […]
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