SCOTUS Skips Challenges to Time for Nonmembers of Class to Sue

The US Supreme Court Monday denied Union Pacific Railroad Co. review in three cases that found workers who weren’t part of a disbanded nationwide class action alleging disability discrimination still had time to sue individually.

The railroad asked the justices to weigh in on the application of a tolling rule the court created for circumstances in which a suit that’s certified as a class action is later decertified or where class certification was denied. Under American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah, the time to sue individually is suspended while the class action was pending for “all asserted members ...