The U.S. Labor Department suit alleging discriminatory practices at Oracle America Inc. should be thrown out after a Supreme Court ruling last term questioned the lawfulness of thousands of administrative judges across the federal bureaucracy, lawyers for the tech company are arguing.

Oracle’s lawyers at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe contend there is no currently serving administrative judge law at the Labor Department who can lawfully preside over the case, in which labor regulators contend Oracle’s compensation practices discriminate against female, African-American and Asian employees. The agency sued Oracle in January 2017 at the end of the Obama administration.

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