Yet again, the ultra-left loses when their ideals are put in front of a sane court of law (which is why they hate sanem judges, btw).
A federal appeals court on Wednesday said the State of Maryland may not require large retailers (Wal-Mart was the target) to spend 8 percent of their payrolls on health care for employees.
In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that said Maryland’s law violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. (That federal labor law says companies may offer uniform health benefits across the country rather than deal with a variety of state requirements.)
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“Last year, the union leaders failed in 32 of the 33 states where they announced they would enact a so-called Fair Share Health Care bill,” said Catherine Smith, Interim Chair of Working Families for Wal-Mart.
“In Maryland, the only state to enact the legislation, a federal judge promptly struck it down as illegal. Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals agreed. We applaud the court’s actions and are gratified that yet again this measure has been exposed as both illegal and bad public policy,” Smith added.
Working Families for Wal-Mart is urging union leaders to “abandon these failed gimmicks and use their members’ dues to help pass meaningful reforms that expand affordable health coverage to all Americans.”
I hope that the folks in WA trying to force the same law down the throats of business were watching. Not that that has ever stopped them for trying.
And of course, we live in the AO of the 9th Circuit, which is not sane.
I haven’t looked very hard, but I don’t recall this item being featured on any of the DPR of MD/DC news channels I occasionally watch. What a surprise….
Glad to see these DPR of MD idiots get smacked down. When the law was passed, Wal-mart promptly changed their plan to build a distro center in southern MD to a site in VA, hopefully they won’t take this as a sign it’s OK to move it back here.