Debating the Past's Authority in Alabama
dc.contributor.author | Mayeux, Sara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-05T22:23:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-05T22:23:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | 70 Stanford Law Review 1645 (2018) | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/9317 | |
dc.description | article published in a law review | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | In 2015, the city council of Birmingham, Alabama enacted an ordinance establishing a local minimum wage of $10.10 an hour-a significant raise for the city's low-income workers from the federal floor of $7.25. The ordinance proved short-lived. Within months, the Alabama legislature had passed and the governor signed statewide preemption legislation nullifying all local wage regulations. Marnika Lewis, a twenty-three-year-old mother and employee of the Moe's Southwest Grill burrito chain, is among several plaintiffs challenging the Alabama preemption statute, HB 174, as unconstitutional and racially discriminatory. "[T]he legislature and the governor," Lewis complains, have "stolen my raise." Lewis's legal claims rest upon a deeper set of claims about Alabama history | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1 PDF (9 pages) | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Stanford Law Review | en_US |
dc.subject | labor law | en_US |
dc.subject | discrimination | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | law | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | civil rights | en_US |
dc.title | Debating the Past's Authority in Alabama | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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