BST HOLDINGS v. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH ADMIN

No. 21-60845.

17 F.4th 604 (2021)

BST HOLDINGS, L.L.C.; RV Trosclair, L.L.C.; Trosclair Airline, L.L.C.; Trosclair Almonaster, L.L.C.; Trosclair and Sons, L.L.C.; Trosclair; Trosclair, Incorporated; Trosclair Carrollton, L.L.C.; Trosclair Claiborne, L.L.C.; Trosclair Donaldsonville, L.L.C.; Trosclair Houma, L.L.C.; Trosclair Judge Perez, L.L.C.; Trosclair Lake Forest, L.L.C.; Trosclair Morrison, L.L.C.; Trosclair Paris, L.L.C.; Trosclair Terry, L.L.C.; Trosclair Williams, L.L.C.; Ryan Dailey; Jasand Gamble; Christopher L. Jones; David John Loschen; Samuel Albert Reyna; Kip Stovall; Answers in Genesis, Incorporated; American Family Association, Incorporated; Burnett Specialists; Choice Staffing, L.L.C.; Staff Force, Incorporated; Leadingedge Personnel, Limited; State of Texas; HT Staffing, Limited; Doing Business as HT Group; The State of Louisiana; Cox Operating, L.L.C.; Dis-Tran Steel, L.L.C.; Dis-Tran Packaged Substations, L.L.C.; Beta Engineering, L.L.C. Optimal Field Services, L.L.C.; The State of Mississippi; Gulf Coast Restaurant Group, Incorporated; The State of South Carolina; The State of Utah; Word of God Fellowship, Incorporated, doing business as Daystar Television Network, Petitioners, v. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; United States Department of Labor; Martin J. Walsh, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor; Douglas Parker, in his Official Capacity as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED November 12, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Robert Suhr , Jeffrey Jennings , Liberty Justice Center, Chicago, IL, Sarah Harbison , Pelican Institute for Public Policy, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioners BST Holdings, L.L.C., RV Trosclair, L.L.C., Trosclair Airline, L.L.C., Trosclair Almonaster, L.L.C., Trosclair and Sons, L.L.C., Trosclair & Trosclair, Incorporated, Trosclair Carrollton, L.L.C., Trosclair Claiborne, L.L.C., Trosclair Donaldsonville, L.L.C., Trosclair Houma, L.L.C., Trosclair Judge Perez, L.L.C., Trosclair Lake Forest, L.L.C., Trosclair Morrison, L.L.C., Trosclair Paris, L.L.C., Trosclair Terry, L.L.C., Trosclair Williams, L.L.C., Ryan Dailey, Jasand Gamble, Christopher L. Jones, David John Loschen, Samuel Albert Reyna, and Kip Stovall.

Jeffrey Carl Mateer, Esq. , General Counsel, First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, for Petitioner Answers in Genesis, Incorporated.

Jeffrey Carl Mateer, Esq. , General Counsel, First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, David J. Hacker , Lea Patterson , Keisha Russell , Hiram Stanley Sasser, III , First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, for Petitioners American Family Association, Incorporated, and Word of God Fellowship, Incorporated.

Matthew R. Miller, Esq. , Robert E. Henneke , Texas Public Policy Foundation, Austin, TX, for Petitioners Burnett Specialists, Choice Staffing, L.L.C., Staff Force, Incorporated, Leadingedge Personnel, Limited, and HT Staffing, Limited.

Judd Edward Stone, II , Ryan Baasch , William Francis Cole, Esq. , Lanora Christine Pettit , Benjamin D. Wilson , Office of the Attorney General, Office of the Solicitor General, Austin, TX, Leif A. Olson, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Petitioner State of Texas.

Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, Joseph Scott St. John , Louisiana Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, New Orleans, LA, for Petitioner State of Louisiana.

John Stone Campbell, III , John Parham Murrill , Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Petitioners Cox Operating, L.L.C., Dis-Tran Steel, L.L.C., Dis-Tran Packaged Substations, L.L.C., Beta Engineering, L.L.C., and Optimal Field Services, L.L.C.

Justin Lee Matheny, Esq. , Office of the Attorney General for the State of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, Scott Stewart, Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Jackson, MS, for Petitioner State of Mississippi.

Aaron Randall Rice , Attorney, Mississippi Justice Institute, Jackson, MS, for Petitioner Gulf Coast Restaurant Group, Incorporated.

Thomas T. Hydrick , Office of the Attorney General for the State of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, for Petitioner State of South Carolina.

Melissa A. Holyoak , Senior Counsel, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, for Petitioner State of Utah.

Steven Paul Lehotsky , Lehotsky Keller, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Scott A. Keller , Lehotsky Keller, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Petitioners Texas Trucking Association, Mississippi Trucking Association, Louisiana Motor Transport Association, American Trucking Associations, Incorporated, National Federation of Independent Business, National Retail Federation, FMI-The Food Industry Association, National Association of Convenience Stores, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, International Warehouse & Logistics Association, and International Foodservice Distributors Association.

Martin Vincent Totaro , Brian James Springer , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, DC, Edmund C. Baird , Kate S. O'Scannlain , Thomas E. Perez , Marisa C. Schnaith , U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, DC, for Respondents.

John J. Bursch , Bursch Law, P.L.L.C., Caledonia, MI, for Amicus Curiae Bentkey Services, L.L.C.

Sheng Tao Li , Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae New Civil Liberties Alliance.

Jeffrey B. Dubner , Rachel Fried , Jessica Morton , Democracy Forward Foundation, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Medical Association.

Before JONES, DUNCAN, and ENGELHARDT, Circuit Judges.


The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) "reasonably determined" in June 2020 that an emergency temporary standard (ETS) was "not necessary" to "protect working people from occupational exposure to infectious disease, including COVID-19." In re AFL-CIO, 2020 WL 3125324, at *1 (D.C. Cir. June...

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