Brief filed by the City of Austin before the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals arguing that the state’s minimum wage law does not preempt the city’s Earned Sick Time Ordinance, that the city had a rational basis for enacting the ordinance, and that the court should not temporarily enjoin the enforcement of the ordinance while it is being challenged.
Read MoreFlorida Appellate Court decision holding that the Minimum Wage Amendment to the Florida Constitution does not prevent the state from preempting local authority to establish a higher minimum wage in a subsequent statute. This decision is being appealed.
Read MoreMissouri Supreme Court decision upholding St. Louis’ minimum wage increase because the state law seeking to preempt it was unconstitutionally enacted. Missouri has since taken legislative steps to limit local minimum wage increases.
Read MoreMinnesota District Court decision upholding Minnesota’s minimum wage ordinance, finding that a state minimum wage statute did not impliedly preempt a local ordinance requiring a higher minimum wage.
Read MoreThis is the District Court (N.D. Ala.) decision that the state law preempting Birmingham’s minimum wage violated neither the Federal Voting Rights Act nor the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. This decision is currently being appealed.
Read MoreMissouri Supreme Court decision allowing Kansas City to submit a ballot proposal on raising the minimum wage, but not addressing any substantive arguments as to whether such a minimum wage increase would be nullified by Missouri state law preempting local minimum wage increases.
Read MoreThis complaint was filed by the NAACP arguing that an Alabama state law preempting Birmingham’s minimum wage ordinance violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the Federal Voting Rights Act.
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