Religious Rights, Arbitration and Pot Cases Await Supreme Court

The 2020 U.S. Supreme Court term will feature high-profile political and policy battles, potentially including litigation over the presidential election, but several notable if less splashy cases with workplace implications are also waiting in the wings.

The justices have already agreed to hear arguments in disputes touching on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Federal Arbitration Act, and a conflict over LGBT rights and religious exemptions.

Petitions for review are pending in cases concerning wage-and-hour class actions, long-running disputes about class-wide arbitration, and several cases about religious accommodations. Union fee disputes under consideration by the court could expand a previous ...