Top Five Labor Law Developments for March 2025
The National Labor Relations Board once again lacks a quorum to issue decisions. T he U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the Trump Administration’s emergency request to stay a lower court’s decision reinstating Board Member Gwynne Wilcox. Wilcox v. Trump, et al., No. 25-5057 (D.C. Cir. Mar. 28, 2025). In a 2-1 decision, the court majority ruled the Trump Administration is likely to demonstrate that President Donald Trump had authority to terminate Wilcox, finding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Seila Law, 591 U.S. 197 (2020), controlling . The court explained that while Humphrey’s Executor, 295 U.S. 602 (1935), upheld the constitutionality of for-cause removal protections for federal agency leaders, Seila Law subsequently narrowed that decision as applying only to multimember agencies that “do not wield substantial executive power,” and thus is inapplicable to the Board. Wilcox filed a petition for en banc review...