MATTER OF TRINITY INDUSTRIES, INC.

Nos. 87-3566, 87-3864, 87-3835, 88-7152 and 88-7502.

876 F.2d 1485 (1989)

In the Matter of Application to Adjudge TRINITY INDUSTRIES, INC. In Civil Contempt. (Two Cases) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TRINITY INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. TRINITY INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee. Ann MCLAUGHLIN, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MOSHER STEEL COMPANY, DIVISION OF TRINITY INDUSTRIES, INC., and Roger Love, Plant Manager, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 11, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Rader, Jr. and Frederick W. Addison, Rader, Addison & Story, P.C., Dallas, Tex., Peter Reed Corbin, Corbin & Dickinson, Jacksonville, Fla., and John J. Coleman, Jr., Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

Dorthea Beane, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., Michael F. Hagan, Office of the Sol., U.S. Dept. of Labor, Atlanta, Ga., John Shortall, Office of the Sol., U.S. Dept. of Labor, and Ann Rosenthal, Appellate Litigation, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and COX, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


COX, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated cases are on appeal from final orders of district courts for the Northern District of Alabama and the Middle District of Florida finding Mosher Steel Company (Mosher) and Trinity Industries, Inc. (Trinity) in contempt of court for failure to honor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection warrants. Concluding that the district courts did not abuse their discretion in holding Mosher and Trinity in contempt...

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