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  1. November 08, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Religious Rights & Gov't Contracts

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for a short week of arguments, in which the justices will consider whether state and local government officials can be held personally liable for alleged religious rights violations and whether government contractors are entitled to immediately appeal denials of derivative sovereign immunity. 

  2. September 23, 2025

    Feds Tell Justices GEO Can't Rush Detainee Work Row Appeal

    The federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court that immigrant detention contractor The GEO Group Inc. is wrong when it asserts that a federal judge's rejection of its immunity defense to a detainee class action could be appealed immediately.

  3. September 22, 2025

    Justices Urged To Narrow Liability Defense In GEO Wage Row

    Public Citizen urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to rein in lower courts' interpretation of the 85-year-old Yearsley ruling, arguing it doesn't provide government contractors sovereign immunity derived from the government.

  4. September 16, 2025

    Detainees Urge Justices To Ax Early Appeal In GEO Wage Row

    Immigrant detainees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject GEO Group's bid for a ruling allowing government contractors to promptly challenge adverse rulings on derivative sovereign immunity, saying it would "dramatically expand" the number of nonfinal judgments that can be immediately appealed.

  5. August 01, 2025

    GEO Pushes Justices To Grant Appeal Of Immunity Ruling

    Private prison corporation GEO urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that government contractors have the right to challenge courts' rulings that they are not entitled to derivative sovereign immunity, saying that such denials are collateral orders worthy of an appeal.

  6. July 28, 2025

    Top Gov't Contracts Cases To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2025

    Federal courts in the latter half of 2025 are expected to decide if government contractors can immediately appeal denials of immunity and scrutinize whether the False Claims Act's whistleblower provision is constitutional, potentially affecting the government's ability to tackle fraud. Here, Law360 previews key disputes that government contractors should have on their radar in the second half of the year.

  7. July 07, 2025

    Wage Cases To Watch For The Rest Of 2025

    A U.S. Supreme Court look at a private prison operator's assertion of immunity from incarcerated workers' claims, appeals seeking to replace the two-step collective certification process and challenges to U.S. Department of Labor rules are among the wage and hour cases to watch in the coming months. Here’s a look at those ongoing cases.

  8. June 02, 2025

    Justices To Probe GEO's Immunity Claim In Forced Labor Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up GEO Group Inc.'s bid for review of a Tenth Circuit decision dismissing the private prison company's immediate appeal of an adverse immunity determination in a forced labor class action.

  9. May 08, 2025

    Listen: Prison Wages Debate Evolving With Petitions Pending

    The debate regarding whether incarcerated people who perform work are employees and thus entitled to federal wage and hour protections is set to continue to develop. Listen to Law360 Explores: Subminimum Wage Part 2.