Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several decisions of note for employers—but what may be the most significant case, Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer,1 is the one that grabbed the fewest headlines.
The cases most closely watched on Capitol Hill were Noel Canning v. NLRB, which held that President Barack Obama’s January 2012 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which may limit access to contraceptives, under the Affordable Care Act, to beneficiaries of medical plans of closely held corporations who object to that coverage on religious grounds.
