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> It's a supreme court decision that is allowing Amazon to do this. No, it's federal law which allows Amazon to do this. The Supreme Court's role is not to ac
by eadmund 7y ago
> It's a supreme court decision that is allowing Amazon to do this.
No, it's federal law which allows Amazon to do this.
The Supreme Court's role is not to act as a kind of super-legislature, creating and changing laws at whim: its role is to adjudicate disputes as to what the actual letter of the law requires given the facts of specific cases.
- elliekelly 7y agoAnd it looks like Congress was particularly snippy towards their colleagues in the Judicial branch when they passed the law[1] in question: > The Congress finds that the Fair Labor Standards Act ... has been interpreted judicially in disregard of long-established customs, practices, and contracts between employers and employees, thereby creating wholly unexpected liabilities, immense in amount and retroactive in operation, upon employers with the results that, if said Act as so interpreted or claims arising under such interpretations were permitted to stand, (1) the payment of such liabilities would bring about financial ruin of many employers ... And that's only the first of ten+ chicken-little scenarios laid out in the Congressional Findings section. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/251 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/251