(June 28, 2024, 11:35 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alabama’s unemployment benefits statute’s exhaustion requirement is not preempted by 42 U.S. Code Section 1983, the Alabama secretary of labor argues in a respondent brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing arguments by unemployment benefits applicants who allege that their complaint over delays in processing the large amount of applications filed due to the coronavirus pandemic was improperly dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies....