What happened
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a Department of Labor case over whether the agency may adjudicate proceedings seeking monetary remedies from employers accused of violating employment terms for H-2A workers and corresponding domestic workers.
The grant in Department of Labor et al. v. Sun Valley Orchards LLC is limited to two questions: an Article III challenge to agency adjudication of those monetary-remedy proceedings and a statutory-authority question under 8 U.S.C. ยง 1188(g)(2).
The case puts before the justices a dispute over how far the labor agency may go in collecting monetary remedies from employers accused of violating the terms and conditions of employment for temporary agricultural workers and domestic workers in corresponding employment.
The order list also included a summary reversal in Abbott v. LULAC. The court reversed a district court judgment for the reasons set out in its 2025 Abbott decision, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the summary reversal.
In addition to the grant and summary disposition, the court denied a group of certiorari petitions, denied two habeas petitions and denied listed rehearing petitions.