5th Circuit Denies Rehearing After Affirming Dismissal Of Suit Over NLRB Memo

( August 20, 2025, 12:34 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals treated a petition for rehearing en banc filed by staffing companies as a petition for panel rehearing and denied it, leaving in place a panel majority ruling that a federal court in Texas properly dismissed for lack of standing the companies’ complaint alleging that a memorandum by the then-National Labor Relations Board general counsel enforced a new interpretation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which they claimed “prohibits employers from speaking to employees about unionization.”...