SpaceX Wins Appeals Court Order to Freeze Labor Board Case (1)

SpaceX secured a temporary reprieve from a National Labor Relations Board case alleging the Elon Musk-led company illegally fired workers.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday granted SpaceX’s request to block the NLRB’s administrative case pending the company’s challenge to a lower court’s “effective denial” of its request for an injunction. The single-sentence order contained no legal reasoning and simply announced the granting of the company’s emergency motion.

The order stems from SpaceX’s lawsuit alleging that the NLRB’s structure and how it administers federal labor law violates the US Constitution.

The company’s underlying arguments go ...