Mealey's (February 27, 2024, 3:34 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Application of the Washington Minimum Wage Act (WMWA) to voluntary work programs for federal immigration detainees housed in facilities run by a for-profit company is precluded pursuant to the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause and the intergovernmental immunity doctrine, the United States argues in an amicus curiae brief filed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in two appeals by a Washington state detention center owner and operator challenging a minimum wage verdict for a class of immigration detainees and an unjust enrichment award for Washington....