“Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards”: A Supreme Court Oral Argument Preview
Panelists:
Illan Wurman, Julius E. Davis Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Amit R. Vorz, Kasowitz
Alexander T. MacDonald, Littler Mendelson P.C.
About:
On November 10th, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Labor Department has statutory and constitutional authority to administratively adjudicate monetary-penalty claims against employers for violating contractual obligations to foreign and domestic workers. Our panelists will discuss the case’s implications, preview the parties’ legal arguments, and offer insights on the justices’ perspectives.
Panelists
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Ilan Wurman is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches administrative law and constitutional law. He previously taught at Arizona State University. He writes primarily on the Fourteenth Amendment, administrative law, separation of powers, and constitutionalism. Professor Wurman is the author of a casebook, Administrative Law Theory and Fundamentals: An Integrated Approach (Foundation Press 3d ed. 2025). His next book, The Constitution of 1789: A New Introduction, is also forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Professor Wurman practices law with the firm Tully Bailey.
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Amit R. Vora is a partner at Kasowitz LLP and chair of its appellate and constitutional litigation practice group, focusing his practice on complex litigation in federal and state courts, with a particular emphasis on appellate litigation. Amit previously served as Assistant Solicitor General with the New York State Attorney General’s Office. There, he litigated federal and state appeals involving administrative and constitutional issues. Amit was also a supervising attorney and teaching fellow with Georgetown University Law Center’s Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, and he clerked for the Honorable Edward C. Prado, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Alexander T. MacDonald is a Shareholder with Littler Mendelson P.C. in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and serves as Co-Chair of the Workplace Policy Institute. He has extensive experience advising businesses on worker classification, arbitration, the administrative and regulatory process, and the future of work. Prior to joining Littler, Alex served as the director, future of work, for a major technology company. He also worked in a national labor and employment law firm and a major public-sector general counsel’s office. He was a law clerk to the senior judges in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.
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