Judge Grants OSHA Bid To Dismiss North Dakota Whistleblower Challenge

A federal district court judge has granted OSHA’s request to dismiss North Dakota’s suit challenging an agency investigation into alleged whistleblower retaliation by the state’s environment department, finding that all of the state’s claims that the investigation violated North Dakota’s sovereign immunity fail. “Federal agencies have the authority to investigate ‘unconsenting States’ for alleged violations of federal law ‘upon its own initiative or upon information supplied by a private party,’” Judge Daniel M. Traynor of the U.S. District Court for...