Starbucks’ Subpoena Row With Labor Board Reaches Second Circuit

Starbucks Corp. will try to fend off a National Labor Relations Board effort to win an injunction against the company from a circuit court after a federal judge threw out the agency’s petition due to a fight over discovery.

The NLRB is set to press its case against Starbucks—and the Trump-appointed judge whose subpoena-focused decision shielded the company from the injunction petition—during oral argument Friday at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan.

The Second Circuit can instruct the district court to grant the petition based on the record, the board argued in case papers. The ...