High Court Decision Backs Wage-Rule Case Revival, Care Firms Say

A new US Supreme Court opinion expanding when parties can sue over federal agencies’ actions supports reviving a US Labor Department rule-change challenge tossed on timeliness grounds, three home-care firms told the Third Circuit.

The DOL argued that the home-care firms’ challenge to its revision of a rule dealing with certain overtime and minimum wage exemptions fell outside the six-year limitations period for an Administrative Procedure Act suit. But the high court “decisively rejected” that argument in another case Monday, the firms said in a status report filed with the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit the same ...