CopyCited 50 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1995 WL 594387
...Gray v. Village of Hawthorn Woods, 19 Ill.2d 316, 317, 167 N.E.2d 176, 177 (1960) ("A square mile like an acre is a unit of area."). Significantly, the Florida legislature has recognized the legitimacy of using a square mile as a unit of measurement. Section 531.38, Florida Statutes (1993), provides in part that "[t]he definitions of basic units of weight and measure, the tables of weight and measure, and weight and measure equivalents as published by the National Institute of Standards and Techn...
CopyCited 9 times | Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | 18 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 385, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 21778, 161 Lab. Cas. (CCH) 35, 959
...or “company
police and guard protection; taxes and insurance on the employer’s buildings
which are not used for lodgings furnished to the employee,” id. § 531.32(c), and
the payment of any tax that the law requires the employer to pay, id. § 531.38....
...The cost of safety
caps provided to miners also may not count toward the wages of miners under
section 203(m), 29 C.F.R. § 531.32(c), even though these caps help protect miners
from injuries.
Bland argues that the interpretations contained in sections 531.32 and
531.38 are not entitled to deference under Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural
Resources Defense Council, Inc.,
467 U.S. 837,
104 S. Ct. 2778 (1984), and that
we should not rely on them, but this argument fails. Even if these interpretations
in sections 531.32 and
531.38 are not entitled to deference under Chevron or Auer,
they are persuasive under Skidmore v....
