U.S. Circuit Judge Kermit Lipez asked the island government’s attorney. “How can you reconcile that with a clear federal policy and law to the contrary?” The attorney, Mariola Abreu of Pietrantoni, ...

The Maine equal-pay law “provides no role for the employer's motivation,” U.S. Circuit Judge Kermit Lipez wrote in an 55-page decision. “It is the unequal pay, not the reasons for it, that constitutes ...