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Supreme Court and Family Leave Act

NPR | By Michele Norris,

Julie Rovner

Published January 15, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Michele Norris talks with NPR's Julie Rovner about today's arguments before the Supreme Court on the Family and Medical Leave Act. At issue is whether the law applies to state employees. States -- as they have in other cases in recent years -- argue the Constitution forbids the federal government from imposing certain worker protection measures on them.