Supreme Court Backs Starbucks in Pro-Union Worker Case

The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Thursday with Starbucks in the coffee chain's challenge to a judicial order to rehire seven Memphis

they sought to unionize in a ruling that could make it harder for courts to quickly halt labor practices contested as unfair under federal law.

The justices unanimously threw out a lower court's approval of an injunction sought by the U.S. National

the workers while the agency's in-house administrative case against the Seattle-based company proceeds.

Starbucks had argued that the judge in the Memphis case should have used a stringent four-factor test to weigh the bid for an injunction

This test includes an assessment of whether the side seeking relief would suffer irreparable harm and is likely to succeed on the merits of the case.

Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas authored Thursday's ruling in which the justices unanimously agreed to return

the case to the lower court to apply the four-factor test. Liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

broke with the other justices on how the lower court should apply part of that test.

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