An Alabama law that blocked the city of Birmingham’s minimum wage ordinance may have been motivated by race discrimination, according to a lawsuit the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said could proceed.
The decision revives a challenge to the state law by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Alabama Legislative Black Caucus. A lower court dismissed the lawsuit in February 2017, finding that the state law was constitutional and wasn’t racially biased.
The Alabama legislature enacted the law in 2016. It was part of an uptick in state laws across the country ...
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