Mealey's ( September 2, 2021, 1:39 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 1 denied a trade association’s petition for en banc rehearing and let stand a panel decision that a Seattle ordinance requiring large hotels to spend certain amounts on health coverage for their employees is not preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; the panel said Golden Gate Rest. Ass’n v. City & Cnty. of San Francisco controlled....