Mealey's (January 14, 2019, 10:17 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — Allegations by a trade association that a 2016 ordinance, which requires hotels to provide health benefits to certain employees, runs afoul of the express preemption provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a), were stayed Dec. 27 by a Washington federal judge three days after the Washington Court of Appeals struck down the ordinance as unconstitutional (ERISA Industry Committee v. Seattle, No. 18-1188, W.D. Wash.)....