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WIRTZ v. BASIC INCORPORATED

Civ. No. 1782.

256 F.Supp. 786 (1966)

W. Willard WIRTZ, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff, v. BASIC INCORPORATED, a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Nevada.

July 22, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Altero D'Agostini, Regional Atty., and Mildred Y. K. Lau, Atty., United States Dept. of Labor, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Woodburn, Forman, Wedge, Blakey, Folsom & Hug, Reno, Nev., for defendant.

OPINION

THOMPSON, District Judge.

The Manager of the Western Division of defendant, Basic Incorporated, when warned by the Chief Chemist of the imminence of passage in Congress of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, remarked, "The Congress would never pass such a foolish law as that."

This "foolish" law1 is now before the Court for interpretation, uninfluenced by the rightness or wrongness of the policy considerations which led...

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