STATE OF MARYLAND v. WIRTZ

Civ. A. No. 18005.

269 F.Supp. 826 (1967)

STATE OF MARYLAND, Plaintiff, and State of Colorado et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. W. Willard WIRTZ, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor and Clarence T. Lundquist, Administrator of the Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division of the United States Department of Labor, and William Hargadine, Jr., Regional Director, Third Region, Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division, United States Department of Labor, Defendants.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

June 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Alan M. Wilner and Franklin Goldstein, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Maryland (Robert F. Sweeney, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and Loring E. Hawes, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), A. J. Carubbi, Hawthorne Phillips and Robert W. Norris, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Texas (Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, and Cecil A. Morgan, Fort Worth, Tex., for Ft. Worth Independent School District, on brief), William M. Hoiles, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ohio, G. T. Blakenship, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, James Noble, Atty. Gen. of New Mexico, for plaintiffs.

Charles Donahue, Sol. of Labor, Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., Dist. of Maryland, James M. Miller, Deputy Associate Sol., Dept. of Labor (Barefoot Sanders, Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen., Harland F. Leathers, William A. Gershuny, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Bessie Margolin, Associate Sol., Dept. of Labor, Robert E. Nagle and William Fauver, Attys., Dept. of Labor, on brief), for defendants.

J. Albert Woll, Robert C. Mayer, Lawrence Gold and Thomas E. Harris, Washington, D. C., on brief for American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, amici curiae.

Henry Kaiser, Ronald Rosenberg and Van Arken & Kaiser, Washington, D. C., on brief for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae.*

Before WINTER, Circuit Judge, THOMSEN, Chief Judge, and NORTHROP, District Judge.


WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This is an action brought by the State of Maryland, in which twenty-five other States have intervened as parties plaintiff, asking the Court to declare unconstitutional the 1966 Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act1 (the "1966 Amendments") insofar as they apply to employees of the plaintiff States, and to enjoin enforcement of the Act, as amended, against the States. Although the 1966 Amendments extend the...

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