Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi asked the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for an en banc review of a recent three-judge panel decision upholding the Biden Administration’s $15 minimum wage for federal contractors. The states argue the decision violates court precedent and deepens a circuit split between the Ninth Circuit, which invalidated the rule, and the Tenth Circuit, which upheld it. The states also argue the en banc appeal is “extraordinarily important” because it impacts hundreds of thousands of businesses and “$20 billion in spending.”
