Airline Workers Tell High Court To Deny Petition In Minimum Wage Lawsuit

Mealey's (April 29, 2019, 11:51 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A petition for a writ of certiorari by SkyWest Inc. and SkyWest Airlines Inc. (collectively, SkyWest) in a lawsuit over minimum wages should be denied as there was no error in the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ reversal of the trial court’s application of the dormant commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution as to state and local wage claims and no circuit disagreement exists, current and former SkyWest flight attendants argue in their April 24 opposition brief (SkyWest, Inc., et al. v. Andrea Hirst, et al., No. 18-1097, U.S. Sup.)....