Cooperative Home Care, Inc. v. City of St. Louis

The parties cross-appeal a judgment invalidating St. Louis City’s Ordinance 70078, which establishes a citywide local minimum wage. The trial court rejected Plaintiffs’ arguments that the minimum wage ordinance governed a matter beyond purely local concerns and held that it was not preempted by section 67.1571, RSMo 2000, because the bill adopting that provision was unconstitutionally enacted. But, the trial court nonetheless invalidated Ordinance 70078 because it requires a higher minimum wage than the state requires in section 290.502, RSMo Supp. 2013. The trial court believed that section…