Trump Lawyers Flip Position on Tip Case Before Supreme Court

The dust continues to settle on a recently passed law that prohibits employers from keeping workers’ tips.

The Trump administration has now broken its silence before the U.S. Supreme Court on the matter, after eight delays spanning 15 months. The Justice and Labor departments filed a brief May 22 asking the high court to grant the restaurant industry’s petition to invalidate a 2011 regulation that prevented businesses from imposing tip-pooling arrangements on workers.

But rather than review the case by scheduling oral arguments, the government wants the Supreme Court to vacate the case and remand it to a federal appeals ...