Dive Brief

The agency argued that a lawsuit filed by several home care companies was barred by a federal statute of limitations, but the court disagreed, overturning a district court decision.

Published Sept. 12, 2024

Dive Brief:

• The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived Sept. 6 a lawsuit filed by home care companies challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule ending federal wage-and-hour law exemptions for home care workers, holding that a lower court erred when it decided that the companies’ suit was untimely.
• Plaintiffs in Intra-National Home Care, LLC v. U.S. Department of Labor alleged that DOL’s 2013 final rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act because it is contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. A Pennsylvania district court held that the suit was filed too late to meet the APA’s six-year statute of limitations on civil actions.
• The companies appealed, claiming that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overruled the district court’s reasoning. The 3rd Circuit held 2-1 that the plaintiffs’ complaint was timely regardless because the plaintiffs are challenging a DOL enforcement action against them, and therefore the statute of limitations “begins to run anew when the agency seeks to enforce the regulation against plaintiffs.”

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