return of compelled work AKA slavery in the US
@Anarkat You can sue ~anyone and ask for ~anything, even if you haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of getting that (and people threaten to do that or do that, counting on misestimations of chances or on (possibly mistaken) caution of the other side).
Note that the (current in force) outcome here is not forcing them to work:
> Otherwise, he said, the order prohibiting them from going to work at Ascension would be final until a further ruling was made. That means the seven health care workers would not be working at either hospital on Monday.
If anything, this is a violation of some kind of free association principle, but doesn't appear to be slavery (at least much less than the prison variant of "you can work only for these organisations", because this is a temporary "you can't work for that organisation" situation).
return of compelled work AKA slavery in the US
@Anarkat Do you know which court this is happening before or maybe have a link to the case history on the court website? I can't find the records using Google (usually searching for names of attorneys representing both sides is enough, but not here); you say it's a federal court and the article says that it's happening before an "Outagamie County judge", which seems to contradict that.
