RHODE ISLAND DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL MGMT. v. U.S.

Nos. 00-2326, 01-1543.

286 F.3d 27 (2002)

RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, State of Rhode Island, Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of Labor; Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Charles N. Jeffress, Assistant Secretary of Labor For Occupational Safety and Health; Ruth E. McCully, Regional Administrator Region 1, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Defendants, Appellants, Beverly Migliore; Barbara Raddatz; Joan Taylor, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 8, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark B. Stern, with whom Stuart E. Schiffer, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Margaret E. Curran, United States Attorney, and Alisa B. Klein, were on brief for the United States appellants.

Daniel P. Meyer, with whom Joel D. Landry, Sr., were on brief for appellants Migliore, Raddatz and Taylor.

Jonathan M. Gutoff, was on brief as amicus curiae.

James R. Lee, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General, and Deborah A. George, Senior Legal Counsel, were on brief for appellees.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.


TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

The State of Rhode Island brought suit in the district court seeking to enjoin certain federal administrative proceedings on the grounds that the proceedings infringed upon the state's constitutionally protected sovereign interests. The district court enjoined the United States Department of Labor and three employees of a Rhode Island state agency from proceeding in an administrative adjudication of the employees' claims that the state had...

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