Rejecting a request by both sides to let the matter drop, a federal appeals court has ruled in a wage dispute between 24 window washers and their employer. In ruling in the company’s favor that overtime pay isn’t owed, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals conceded it usually accepts joint stipulations to dismiss appeals. The court also noted that the window washers’ attorneys — who agreed to pay some of the employer’s costs — “may be thinking they might do better retrying …