The National Labor Relations Board and professional services firm EY, formerly known as Ernst & Young, are the latest parties to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a growing circuit split over whether arbitration agreements containing class-action waivers are viable under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act.

Friday’s petition from the NLRB appealing a ruling from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and Thursday’s petition from EY appealing a ruling from the Ninth Circuit, come on the heels of another recent cert petition on this controversial legal topic that software company Epic Systems Corp. filed Sept. 2 to appeal a Seventh Circuit ruling.

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