{"id":4189,"date":"2008-01-09T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2017-11-03T15:25:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:25:35","slug":"laws-do-not-apply-to-government-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/laws-do-not-apply-to-government-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws Do Not Apply To Government, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/61C97EE9CF2AF6FA862573CA0078129A?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Judge: Wage law doesn&#8217;t apply to local gov&#8217;t<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Circuit Judge Richard Callahan ruled that the new law cannot be applied to local governments because the new pay scale applies to an &#8220;individual, partnership, association, corporation, business, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of persons.&#8221; Callahan decided that doesn&#8217;t include local governments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess not; the government is neither the legal <i>representative<\/i> of the people nor organized.<\/p>\n<p>That must make them a motley band of infighting self-anointed rulers of the plebes.  I have to agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge: Wage law doesn&#8217;t apply to local gov&#8217;t: Circuit Judge Richard Callahan ruled that the new law cannot be applied to local governments because the new pay scale applies to an &#8220;individual, partnership, association, corporation, business, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of persons.&#8221; Callahan decided that doesn&#8217;t include local governments. I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17220,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/17220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}