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Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528 (1985), is a landmark United States Supreme Court [1] decision in which the Court held that the Congress has the power under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to extend the Fair Labor Standards Act, which requires that employers provide minimum wage and overtime pay to their employees, to state and local governments. [2]
A North Texas construction contractor was sentenced to five years of probation and three months in jail after pleading guilty to fraud, Parker County District Attorney Jeff Swain announced in a ...
The shortest period is 11 months, for the constitutional law Fourth Amendment (re: search and seizure) cases Robbins v. California, 453 U.S. 420 decision in July 1981, overruled by the United States v. Ross, 456 U.S. 798 decision in June 1982.
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11 ...
Anecdotal evidence suggests that tip theft, which is a legally complex issue distinct from wage theft and not necessarily under the control of the same laws governing the payment of wages, [30] [better source needed] may also be common in instances where employer record keeping does not comply with the law. [31]
Ten doctors, two pharmaceutical executives and two businesses have been indicted in a scheme to bribe doctors for prescriptions, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton ...
It’s the second case to come out of the district attorney’s Labor Justice Unit, formed in September to prosecute wage theft cases. That month, the office filed charges against owners of two ...
To obtain a land grant, it must be authorized under either the national constitution or laws, or the laws of the Mexican government prior to independence. Saddler v. Republic, Dallam 610 (1844). Although it takes more than one to be in an affray, a conviction against one will stand even if the others are acquitted. Binge v. Smith, Dallam 616 ...