Age-Discrimination Ruling Is Seen as Victory for States
Washington
Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it amended the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to cover states and their political subdivisions, such as cities and school districts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week.
The 5-4 decision was the latest triumph for states in a wave of cases in recent years challenging the authority of Congress to abrogate the states' immunity from lawsuits under the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The court ruled in 1995, for example, that Congress lacked authority under the Constitution's commerce clause to make it a federal crime to possess a...
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