Republican AGs Call For Court to Toss Discrimination Lawsuit Over Minimum Wage Law

Route Fifty: Six Republican state attorneys general are urging a federal appeals court to kibosh a lawsuit that charges an Alabama law that prevents localities in the state from setting their own minimum wage is discriminatory against African Americans.

The origins of the case can be traced back to the spring of 2015, when the City Council in Birmingham, a city where the majority of residents are black, passed a nonbinding resolution calling for state lawmakers to raise the state’s pay floor to $10 per hour.

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