The Second Circuit's recent articulation that a New York City law barring discrimination based on marital status doesn't encompass who a person is married to lines up with recent state court precedent and may make it harder for some prospective plaintiffs to get marriage-related claims off the ground, experts say.
Fired Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board members are overstating the reach of U.S. Supreme Court precedent allowing limits on the president's power to remove independent agency leaders, the Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit on Friday as it seeks to reverse decisions reinstating the members.
While Democrats in Congress try again to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in more than 15 years, some libertarian policy observers call for doing away with the federal wage floor altogether, an argument they say makes more sense than ever before.