Demarest v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that ERISA’s preemption clause, which supersedes “any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan,” is “expansive” and “broadly worded”
• recognizing recruitment and retention of workers as rational basis in Equal Protection context
• “Machinists preemption does not eliminate state authority to craft minimum labor standards for particular regions or areas of the labor market.”
• “[i]t is fundamental that a Medicaid provider has no property interest in or contract right to reimbursement at any specific rate or, for that matter, to continued participation in the Medicaid program at all” (citation omitted)
• setting minimum wage rates for home care aides
• upholding statute setting a “total compensation floor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).