A group of Tennessee residents who say the state violated their rights when it discontinued its participation in the additional $600 unemployment pay and other benefits provided under the federal government’s Covid-19 relief package two months before they expired lack a viable claim, a federal judge in Nashville ruled.
Gov. Bill Lee and labor department Commissioner Jeff McCord aren’t subject to the proposed class action because Congress didn’t abrogate the 11th Amendment immunity states enjoy from being haled into federal court by their citizens when it passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the U.S. District Court for ...