Supreme Court Turns Down Miami-Dade "Living Wage" Case
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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge by Amerijet International to part of Miami-Dade County's "living wage ordinance."
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year sided with Miami-Dade County in the case, spurring the air-cargo company to seek a hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court. As is customary, the justices did not give an explanation for their decision to reject the case.
The living-wage ordinance requires government contractors and some businesses that use Miami International Airport to pay workers more than the minimum wage.
Amerijet filed the challenge because the county said the living-wage ordinance applied to cargo services that the company provided for other airlines, according to last year's appeals-court ruling. The county did not apply the ordinance to cargo that Amerijet handled for its own customers.
The company said the requirements should not apply to it because of the 1978 federal Airline Deregulation Act or because the disputed part of the ordinance violated the U.S. Constitution.
The News Service of Florida contributed to this report.