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The ERISA Industry Committee v. City of Seattle
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May 29, 2020
The ERISA Industry Committee is taking its challenge of a Seattle ordinance regarding health care coverage for hotel workers to the Ninth Circuit, after a Washington federal judge ruled the Employee Retirement Income Security Act doesn't trump the state law.
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May 11, 2020
A Washington federal judge has held that a Seattle ordinance meant to ensure hotel workers have access to affordable health care isn't trumped by ERISA, throwing out an employer advocacy group's challenge to the city law.
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March 24, 2020
A group that represents large employers has asked a Washington federal judge not to toss its suit that claims ERISA trumps a Seattle ordinance governing hotel workers' health benefits, saying the city statute wasn't akin to a San Francisco law that survived a preemption challenge.
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February 21, 2020
The city of Seattle has urged a Washington federal judge to throw out the ERISA Industry Committee's challenge to a city ordinance meant to ensure hotel workers have access to affordable health care, saying the group was trying to use ERISA "for its own ends."
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January 22, 2020
The ERISA Industry Committee is challenging Seattle's latest attempt to improve hotel workers' access to medical care through legislation, telling a Washington federal judge that a city ordinance requiring employers to pay certain health care costs is trumped by ERISA.
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January 02, 2019
A Washington federal judge has paused the ERISA Industry Commitee's challenge to a section of Seattle's municipal code governing hotel employee health benefits after a state appeals court found that the ordinance as a whole lacks coherence and violates the city's charter and state law.
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December 07, 2018
The ERISA Industry Committee again asked for a quick win in its challenge to a recently revised section of Seattle's municipal code governing hotel employee health benefits, asking a Washington federal judge to reject the city's assertion that the ordinance wasn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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November 13, 2018
The city of Seattle has further urged a federal judge to toss the ERISA Industry Committee's attempt to scrap a revised section of the city's municipal code governing hotel employee health benefits, hitting back at the argument that the ordinance is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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October 26, 2018
The ERISA Industry Committee has urged a Washington federal judge to a block a recently revised section of Seattle's municipal code governing hotel employee health benefits, arguing that the city wrongly asserted that the ordinance wasn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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October 05, 2018
The city of Seattle has urged a Washington federal court to toss a suit challenging a recently revised section of the city's municipal code governing hotel employee health benefits, arguing that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act doesn't preempt the ordinance.