Starbucks is appealing to the Supreme Court to attempt to reverse a previous lower court decision that had compelled the Seattle-based coffee chain to reinstate formerly terminated employees. Starbucks announced Wednesday in a press release that the company has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to have the highest court in the land intervene on one of the union cases Starbucks has faced in recent years.
If the Supreme Court takes up the case, the court will be reviewing the case regarding the Poplar & Highland store in Memphis, Tennessee, known colloquially in the press as The Memphis Seven, a case that was decided last August by a U.S. District Court judge in Tennessee. Until now, courts on the lower levels have been split when it comes to similar legal cases between Starbucks and its union, Starbucks Workers United.
The company claims that the U.S. Court of Appeals “applied a relaxed standard” toward letting the National Labor Relations Board obtain a preliminary injunction and is asking that for this case and those moving forward, injunctions are subjected to a “consistent standard” of a “four standard test” before they are decided.
Senior editor Joanna Fantozzi has the details.
