this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
36 points (100.0% liked)

Politics

10177 readers
25 users here now

In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.


Guidelines for submissions:

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.


Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Nov 15 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Friday permanently blocked a Biden administration rule that would have made about 4 million more salaried U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay.

U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan in Sherman, Texas, said the U.S. Department of Labor rule that took effect in July improperly bases eligibility for overtime pay on workers' wages rather than their job duties.

The state of Texas and business groups representing a range of industries had filed lawsuits challenging the rule, which had been consolidated.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BurningRiver 47 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Cool that the same court in Texas always gets to decide policy for the entire fucking country.

[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

That is getting pretty annoying. These cases should get reassigned to courts in different states after they reach a certain level of ruling.

[–] gyrfalcon 7 points 5 days ago

I was curious so I looked it up and this time it's actually not the Northern district in Texas, but the Eastern district. Still a Trump appointed judge though

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 5 days ago

Jurisdiction shopping is a real problem. Conservatives know they can file any case in one of these small districts with a Trump wacko as the sole judge, and enforce whatever legal hackery they want.