Portal:Supreme Court of the United States, Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido et al… (2018)
“ Does “also means” add new categories to the definition of “employer,” or does it merely clarify that States and their political subdivisions are a type of “person” included in §630 (b) ’s first sentence? If the former, state and local governments are covered by the ADEA regardless of whether they have as many as 20 employees. If the latter, they are covered only if they have at least 20 employees. ”
Portal:Supreme Court of the United States, Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido et al… (2018)
“ And a majority of States forbid age discrimination by political subdivisions of any size; some 15 of these States subject private sector employers to age discrimination proscriptions only if they employ at least a threshold number of workers. ”
Portal:Supreme Court of the United States, Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido et al… (2018)
“ Its construction, however, would lift that restriction for the agent portion of the second sentence, and then reimpose it for the portion of that sentence addressing States and their political subdivisions. We resist a reading so strange. ”
