Five pending Supreme Court cases for HR, In-House & the C-Suite to follow

October 8, 2012 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Earlier this month, the Supreme Court reconvened for its 2012-2013 term.

Although not chock full of pending employment-law cases, this term will see several important issues decided which could affect your workplace. Below, I have a collected a series of links to stories on these cases:

“New Supreme Court Term Promises a Range of Labor and Employment Cases” by Lindsey Marcus and Jeff Nowak at Franczek Radelet P.C.

“2012 SCOTUS Employment Law Preview!” from Phil Miles at LawfficeSpace.com

“Employment Cases on the Supreme Court’s 2012-13 Docket” from the folks at GPH Employment Law Blog

Of the five employment-law cases on the Court’s docket, the one in which I am most interested is Vance v. Ball State Univ., where the Supreme Court will clarify just who is a “supervisor” for purposes of Title VII.

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