Race Bias Challenge to Alabama Wage Law Tossed by 11th Cir. (2)

An Alabama law that blocked the city of Birmingham from increasing its local minimum wage can’t be challenged as discriminatory by black plaintiffs who didn’t link their injuries to the state attorney general’s conduct, a split Eleventh Circuit ruled.

Marnika Lewis and Antoin Adams—who brought the case alongside other fast-food workers, the NAACP, and others—also failed to show that a ruling in their favor would redress their injuries, the majority opinion for the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said Dec. 13.

The plaintiffs therefore lack standing to sue the attorney general, the court held 7-5. The ...