Some judges are questioning a lawsuit that accuses Alabama lawmakers of racial discrimination. At issue is a 2016 law requiring every city in Alabama to have the same minimum wage.
State lawmakers passed it after Birmingham’s city council voted to increase the city’s minimum wage.
Today judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals questioned whether the lawsuit was properly filed against the attorney general. Suing the wrong person would get the case thrown out.
The case was dismissed in 2017, then appealed, and is now back in district court.