US Supreme Court Adds Four Cases to Next Term’s Docket

The Supreme Court this week added four new cases to their docket for the 2024 and 2025 term, according to a list of orders from nine justices’ most recent private conference. The Supreme Court will hear these four cases in its next term, which starts in October 2024 and will likely end sometime in June of next year. The justices agreed to decide how difficult it should be for employers to prove in court that their workers qualify for exemptions from overtime pay and other legal protections granted by U.S. wage laws. They granted a petition in the case, EMD Sales v. Carrera, from grocery distributor EMD Sales to appeal a lower court decision that imposed a higher bar on the company to show that sales representatives were exempt from overtime pay than any other appeals court has imposed in a similar case....