Apple to Push for Free Speech Tests in Labor Case at Fifth Cir.

Apple Inc.’s federal court appeal of an NLRB ruling that it illegally interrogated a worker includes an effort for new legal standards that would make it more difficult for the agency to police employers’ coercive questioning of employees.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear oral argument Tuesday over Apple’s challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s decision. The technology giant urged the court in its brief to use US Supreme Court precedent from First Amendment cases involving criminal threats and alleged defamation to guide its review of the board’s ruling in a labor law ...