Class Legislation/WalMart

[DavidEBernstein at aol.com]

Marty is taking an unusually formalistic position here: the other three 
employers were already in compliance with the legislation, and the proponents of 
the legislation, both inside and outside the legislature, did not disguise the 
fact that the law was meant to affect Wal-Mart and only Wal-Mart.

In a message dated 1/13/2006 9:19:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
marty.lederman at comcast.net writes:
Actually, according to the story, the law is not designed to cover only 
Wal-Mart:  It applies to all employers with more than 10,000 workers in Maryland.  
There are four such employers now -- Johns Hopkins University, Giant Food, 
Northrop Grumman and Wal-Mart -- and could certainly be others in the years to 
come.  That certainly passes rational-basis muster.

No constitutional issue at all, as far as I can see.

David E. Bernstein
Visiting Professor
University of Michigan School of Law
Professor
George Mason University School of Law
http://mason.gmu.edu/~dbernste
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