St. Louis tried to hike its minimum wage from the state-mandated $7.65 an hour to $8.25 an hour, but it ran afoul of a recently passed state law barring municipalities from setting their own minimum wage.

This week Judge Steven Ohmer of the St. Louis Circuit Court, responding to a legal challenge by local business groups, voided the increase based on the statewide ban on municipalities.


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