United States Tenth Circuit

The District Court's order enjoining enforcement of a state law is reversed where the law, which compelled employers to let employees keep firearms in locked vehicles on company property, was not preempted by the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/18/2009
• Published 02/18/2009

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Broussard (Mark K. Blongewicz, Robert P. Fitz-Patrick, and Marshall J. Wells, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, Tulsa, OK;  and W. Kirk Turner and Christopher S. Thrutchley, Newton, O'Connor, Turner & Ketchum, Tulsa, OK;  with him on the briefs) Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Tulsa, OK;  for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Charles J. Cooper (Sherry A. Todd, Oklahoma Attorney General's Office, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs) Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C. for Defendants-Appellants.