In what surely will advance the cause of lawyers engaged in a state-by-state "living wage" campaign on behalf of the working poor, a freshly retired Manhattan litigator and a young activist with the Brennan Center for Social Justice scored a victory last week in a sweeping decision from the New Mexico Court of Appeals that upheld Santa Fe's right to set local minimum hourly pay at $8.50 for virtually all workers in both the public and private sectors.
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Winning Pay Hikes For Low Wage Workers
New York Law Journal
December 9, 2005
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