This page houses amicus briefs and is meant to be used as a guide for insight into state preemption topics. View all briefs.
Amicus brief by a group of law professors specializing in local government law and related fields, before the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals, describing the history and purpose of the Texas Home Rule Amendment and arguing that Texas’s minimum wage law does not preempt Austin’s Earned Sick Time Ordinance.
Amicus brief submitted in support of Miami Beach’s minimum wage ordinance, arguing that the Florida Constitution authorizes municipalities to adopt a higher minimum wage than the state’s.
This amicus brief was submitted in support of NAACP’s appeal, arguing that the Federal Voting Rights Act allows minority voters to bring private enforcement actions against states.
This amicus brief was submitted in support of NAACP’s appeal, arguing that the Alabama state law preempting Birmingham’s minimum wage ordinance does violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
This amicus brief submitted was in support of NAACP’s appeal, arguing that preemption of local minimum wage ordinances undermines the ability of policymakers to respond to local economic conditions, that such preemption disproportionately impacts African American workers, and that higher local minimum wages are a sound policy idea.
Amicus brief submitted in support of Miami Beach’s minimum wage ordinance, arguing that the Minimum Wage Amendment to the Florida Constitution explicitly preserved local power to adopt a higher minimum wage than the state’s.
Amicus Brief submitted in support of allowing a Kansas City, Missouri ballot proposal to raise the minimum wage to go forward, arguing that Kansas City has authority to set a higher wage than that state’s.
