A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general asked a federal judge to block a recent Labor Department regulation that narrows the circumstances in which multiple businesses share liability for wage violations. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia allege the department’s new joint-employer rule, which is set to take effect March 16, is arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act. The case was filed Wednesday in the Southern District of New York.

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