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ikipedia says that déjà vu is the phenomenon of feeling as though one has lived through the present situation before. Last Friday, a Texas federal judge vacated a U.S. Department of Labor 2024 Rule that raised the minimum salary level to be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules on July 1, 2024 (and would have done so again on Januar
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1, 2025). If this sounds familiar, it should. In 2016, a Texas federal judge did the sa
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e thing. In both instances, the plaintiffs claimed that the Department had exceeded its authority because the federal agency increased the