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Cooperative Home Care, Inc v. City of St. Louis

514 S.W.3d 571 (2017)

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Cooperative Home Care, Inc v. City of St. Louis

Missouri Supreme Court
514 S.W.3d 571 (2017)

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Facts

The State of Missouri had a minimum-wage statute setting the minimum wage at $7.65 per hour as of this litigation. In 1998, the Missouri legislature passed a law prohibiting municipalities from establishing a minimum wage that was higher than the state’s minimum wage. Due to uncertainties about this law, in May 2015, the legislature passed another law prohibiting municipalities from establishing a minimum wage that exceeded the state’s minimum wage. However, this new law exempted local minimum-wage ordinances in effect as of August 28, 2015. On August 28, 2015, the City of St. Louis (defendant) adopted an ordinance increasing the minimum wage for people working in St. Louis. The ordinance gradually increased the minimum wage to $11 per hour and indexed it to inflation thereafter. Cooperative Home Care, Inc. (plaintiff) sued the City of St. Louis, arguing that the city’s minimum-wage ordinance was preempted by state minimum-wage law.

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Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Stith, J.)

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