Supreme Court Tells Industry Group Attacking The $15 Minimum Wage To Go Away

May 3, 2016
Unit 4-The Judiciary 

A Supreme Court case presented arguments against Seattle’s $15 an hour minimum wage mandate that ranged from challenging to basically an assault on lawmakers’ power over businesses. One of the arguments suggested that the minimum wage infringes the First Amendment because it causes companies to spend money on wages that have the possibility to be spent on advertising instead. This became an appellate court case. The Supreme Court later decided that it will not hear the appellate jurisdiction from a federal circuit court of appeals settlement of refusing to halt Seattle’s minimum wage. Since the Supreme Court is usually rather eager to take cases where there is a conflict among federal appeals courts, the fact that they didn't might imply that the justices might be hesitant to take up an issue where the Court’s membership isn't stable.

I think that the Supreme Court should take this more into consideration. Courts should have jurisdiction over this case and should look into how this might be a violation of the Constitution. As a person my age, where the minimum wage applies to the majority of the few jobs I am able to attain, it is a topic of importance to me.

Source: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/05/03/3774434/supreme-court-tells-industry-group-attacking-the-15-minimum-wage-to-go-away/