Court Opinion

ID: 9779225
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:40:36.668958+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:23.714465
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ON PETITION TO REHEAR
CHATTIN, Justice.
Petitioners have filed an earnest and forcible petition to rehear.
They insist we were in error in holding this suit could be brought against appellees, a State institution and its officials, without State legislative authority.
However, we clearly pointed out that the amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act authorizing suits by employees of the State against such State institutions were valid; that the States had granted to Congress the power to regulate commerce; and that, therefore, the State cannot defeat the suit by pleading its common law shield of sovereign immunity.
Petitioners further insist our holding that Congress by enacting the Fair Labor Standards Act had conferred subject matter jurisdiction of the suit upon the courts of this State is unconstitutional m violation of Article 1, Section 17, of the Tennessee Constitution.
Again, we pointed out that Congress had the power to enact the Act and authorize suits in State courts under the commerce clause.
The office of a petition to rehear is to call the attention of the Court to matters overlooked, not those things which Counsel supposes were improperly decided after full consideration. West v. Carr, 212 Tenn. 367, 370 S.W.2d 469 (1963).
The petition to rehear is denied.
DYER, C. J., McCANLESS and FONES, JJ., and LEECH, Special Justice, concur.