The issue focused on the opinions of an adjunct professor who questioned whether a former colleague could be considered a part-time employee under the law because she worked so few hours each week. The Supreme Court ruled in the case in a 6-3 decision that there are exemptions to the law that allow some low-paid workers to be classified as full-time employees for the purposes of federal tax law. The ruling does not change the law's definition of full-time, however, as only the law as currently written requires