Federal appeals court upholds Wal-Mart win over Maryland "fair share" employee health benefits law

The NY Times reports that Wal-Mart won its appeal to the Fourth Circuit, arguing that Maryland’s fair share law was pre-empted by ERISA.  Further discussion of the law and the lower court ruling may be found in an earlier HealthBlawg post. 

Update 1/21/07: Read full opinion of Retail Industry Leaders Assn. v. Fielder (4th Cir., Jan. 17, 2007) here.

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