A group of car wash owners claims that a New York City law requiring non-unionized car washes to post a surety bond five times higher than what unionized operations post violates U.S. Supreme Court rulings and is illegal.

Association of Car Wash Owners v. City of New York, filed in the Southern District, contends that Local Law 62 of 2015 unfairly mandates that non-unionized car washes post surety bonds of $150,000 while those businesses that have collective bargaining agreements with employees have to post $30,000 surety bonds.

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