Mealey's ( April 30, 2021, 7:55 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A week after the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a motion for a six-month abeyance of appeal sought by the Biden administration’s Labor secretary in an appeal filed by the secretary under the Trump administration, the states and commonwealths that sued the prior secretary challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule revising its regulations interpreting vertical joint employer liability filed an appellee brief on April 16 asking the court to affirm the District Court’s ruling vacating the rule....