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9th Circuit To Hear Suit Labeling State Plans As ‘Federal’ Actors

January 31, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Oregon logging and forestry groups will ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to let them challenge the state’s workplace safety rules in federal court on the theory that state plans are effectively agents of OSHA rather than their own state governments -- an approach that would open the door to bifurcated litigation on a host of issues. Plaintiffs in Oregon Manufacturers and Commerce, et al. v. Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (OR-OSHA), et al ...

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