OSHA Says Court’s ‘Limitation’ Decision Does Not Aid Suit Over Penalty Caps

OSHA is seeking to dismiss South Carolina’s suit challenging an Obama-era rule directing states to match federal OSH Act penalty levels, renewing its charge that the state missed a statutory deadline and that the Supreme Court’s recent ruling easing some statutes of limitations has no bearing on this case because it could have sued at any time in that window. The agency’s Aug. 30 motion to dismiss McMaster, et al., v. OSHA marks its first substantive response to the...