Besides adding such high-profile issues as the constitutionality of lethal injection executions and voter ID laws to its docket, the Supreme Court ensured, through its latest grants of review, that the new term is likely to be a “banner” year for labor and employment law.
When the justices left for their summer recess in June, they already had agreed to hear arguments in the 2007-2008 term in two job bias cases involving the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and a major retirement plan case involving 401(k) plans and the scope of remedies under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
