Court Security Officers Union Loses Retry in Covid Safety Suit

The union that represents security officers at federal courthouses failed to shore up its allegations to show it had standing to sue the US Marshals Service and the officers’ employer over allegedly faulty Covid-19 workplace safety measures, a Manhattan federal judge ruled.

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York found that a second amended complaint filed by US Security Officers Union president Thomas Massone in the September 2020 lawsuit still didn’t establish that the union had either organizational or associational standing to sue USMS director Donald Washington or Centerra Group LLC, the government contractor that employs ...