Federal Agency Decisions
Workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), and environmental appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board, each with a plain-English summary, the standards it cites, and whether it counts as precedent. More agencies are coming.
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CAM Mining, LLC
Late penalty petitions dismissed
CAM Mining moved for summary decision because the Secretary filed three penalty petitions about four months after they were due. The Secretary did not respond, and Judge Gary Melick found that the asserted explanation concerned delivery of the original assessment rather than a later litigation…
Buck Creek Coal, Inc.
Interlocutory review denied
Buck Creek Coal Inc. asked the Commission to review an ALJ's order staying about 80 civil proceedings while a related criminal investigation continued. The Commission denied interlocutory review because it had already established the governing stay factors in an earlier Buck Creek decision and the…
Madison Branch Management
Interlocutory review granted and hearing stayed
Madison Branch Management sought interlocutory review of an ALJ's rulings that denied motions involving settlement and other case-disposition requests. The Commission found that the rulings involved a controlling legal question and that immediate review could materially advance the proceedings. It…
What these documents are
- The agencies: Workplace-safety cases from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), mine-safety cases from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC), and environmental permit and penalty appeals from the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB). Each decision page names its agency.
- Commission and Board decisions: Rulings by the agency's highest review level (the Commission at OSHRC and FMSHRC, the Environmental Appeals Board at EPA). These are citable as precedent, though a decision may have been appealed to a U.S. Court of Appeals after issuance.
- ALJ decisions: Rulings by the agency's Administrative Law Judges after a hearing. When no Commissioner directs review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order that binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent: under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j) at OSHRC, and after the 40-day window of 30 U.S.C. § 823(d)(1) at FMSHRC.
- Why finality matters: Every page here says which kind of decision you are reading, so you know whether it is precedent you can cite or a final order that only shows how one judge ruled on one set of facts.
- Where they come from: Every page links the official public release from the deciding agency, and the full text on the page is that release. The plain-English summaries are written by Ezel.