The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to review several significant cases, including one involving San Francisco nurses and their entitlement to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Court also chose not to reconsider an Eleventh Circuit decision regarding a Chubb unit's professional services policy, which found that a missing comma did not affect the policy's exclusion of coverage for a food service company's audit. Additionally, the Court denied Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s request for review in cases related to workers' rights to sue individually after a nationwide class action alleging disability discrimination was disbanded. In another ruling, the Supreme Court upheld an Eleventh Circuit decision rejecting a Georgia company's argument that the IRS improperly denied it an excise tax exemption for specialized trucks used in peanut farming. Furthermore, the Court refused to disturb rulings from the Ninth and Sixth Circuits that upheld losses for employers before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), rejecting petitions that invoked last year's Loper Bright decision. The Supreme Court also declined to review a case involving a bulk food delivery contractor that illegally closed a Kentucky terminal during a union organizing drive, thereby leaving the NLRB's decision intact. In a separate ruling, the Supreme Court determined that a bankruptcy trustee cannot claw back federal taxes, affirming the United States' immunity from such actions in the case of United States v. Miller, where the trustee sought to reverse tax payments made by a transportation company prior to its bankruptcy filing, amounting to $145,000.
New bankruptcy/sovereign immunity ruling from #SCOTUS https://t.co/4J8UohMuzP https://t.co/qMCgI9Ae3I
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court reversed a decision allowing the bankruptcy trustee of a defunct Utah company to claw back $145,000 in federal taxes, saying the Bankruptcy Code sections provide only a limited waiver of sovereign immunity. https://t.co/mU1M4CsX8w https://t.co/5Pf0CHWg3l
NEW: The IRS triumphed over a bankruptcy trustee at the Supreme Court after a long-fought battle over payments that a transportation company made before it filed for bankruptcy. https://t.co/XY61wd7Sp8