SIMPSON v. FEDERAL MINE SAFETY & HEALTH REV. COM'N

No. 86-1441.

842 F.2d 453 (1988)

Robert SIMPSON, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION, et al., Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tony Oppegard, with whom Stephen A. Sanders was on the brief, for petitioner.

David T. Smorodin, with whom Peter A. Greene and Steven D. Cundra, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for respondent, Roy Dan Jackson.

L. Joseph Ferrara, Atty., Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Com'n, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance, for respondent, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Com'n.

Ann Rosenthal, Counsel, Appellate Litigation, and Vicki P. Shteir-Dunn, Atty., Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for amicus curiae, Secretary of Labor, urging reversal of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Com'n decision.

Before RUTH BADER GINSBURG and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and McGOWAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns the protection afforded by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act, 30 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq. (Mine Act), to miners who refuse to work because of hazardous conditions. Robert Simpson claims that the operators of the Black Joe Mine responded to a protected work refusal on his part by constructively discharging him and later...

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