South Carolina Eyes Supreme Court To Aid Suit Over OSHA Penalty Mandate

South Carolina is seeking to stay its latest challenge to OSHA’s mandate for states to match annual increases to federal minimum and maximum OSH Act penalties, citing a pending Supreme Court case that it says could loosen the six-year statute of limitations for suing over federal agency action that OSHA has argued is fatal to the current suit. The state filed a Nov. 7 motion to stay McMaster, et al., v. Department of Labor, et al. , which marks South...