Mealey's (January 21, 2021, 1:33 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — The U.S. secretary of Labor and trade groups separately filed appellant briefs on Jan. 15 in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals seeking reversal of a trial court’s ruling for various states deeming the portions of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule revising its regulations interpreting vertical joint employer liability as “arbitrary and capricious,” in conflict with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and “flawed in just about every respect.”...