The U.S. labor board is abandoning a complaint over SpaceX’s severance and arbitration policies, resolving one front of a sprawling legal battle between the agency and Elon Musk’s aerospace company.
In a Dec. 18 joint motion, attorneys for both SpaceX and the National Labor Relations Board asked a federal judge in Texas to dismiss one of two lawsuits filed by SpaceX that argued the NLRB’s structure was unconstitutional, since the agency had decided to withdraw its complaint against the company.
The case had centered around a complaint issued by the NLRB’s Seattle office in March