The official wrote, "We are not authorized to order or require an employer to pay back wages".
But yesterday, three congressmen introduced legislation in Washington that would specifically authorize states to require companies to make the Holocaust-era names public.
Next week, the Senate is expected to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, a bipartisan bill that would authorize states to require out-of-state sellers with more than $1 million in sales to collect sales taxes.
Still, as the Supreme Court itself noted, there's nothing to stop Congress from authorizing states to require collection by out-of-state sellers.
This new bill would authorize courts to require wireless telephone service providers to transfer the telephone number and account responsibilities to the victim, so that abusers no longer have access to this sensitive information.
If the parliament is not in session, the president is authorized to regulate all matters required by the state of war through regulations carrying the force of law.
The appeals court said the E.P.A. had been authorized to set rules that would require upwind states "to bear responsibility for their fair share of the mess in downwind states".
Gathering the department heads together seemed a logical extension of that practice, but the Constitution authorized him only to "require the Opinion, in writing" of the department heads; taking the document literally would have precluded converting them into an advisory council.
The 4-4 split keeps in place a 1970s-era rule that authorizes unions to require municipal employees, teachers, college instructors and transit workers to pay a "fair share fee" to help cover the cost of collective bargaining.
Become authorized to perform marriage.
In the case accepted today, Halter v. Sigmon Coal Company, No. 00-1307, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., rejected that approach and held that the law did not authorize the government to require successor companies to assume the responsibility.
