United States Third Circuit

Denial of a request to regulate metalworking fluids (MWF) was neither arbitrary nor capricious. Given the equivocal evidence linking cancer to MWF exposure, and the "enormous" allocation of resources that regulating MWFs would require, OSHA justifiably prioritized the regulation of more severely toxic substances.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/09/2004
• Decided 03/22/2004
• Published 03/22/2004

Judges

• Before BARRY, SMITH, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy S. Rabinowitz, (Argued), Washington, and Daniel Sherrick, Catherine Traffton, International Union, UAW, Detroit, and Paul Whitehead, David Goldman, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, for Petitioners., Douglas R. Cox, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, for Amicus Chamber of Commerce U.S. and Natl Assn Mfg., Jeffrey L. Leiter, McLean, for Amicus Precision Precision Machine, National Tooling and Ind Lubricant Mfg.


• For Appellees:
  
• Howard M. Radzely, Solicitor of Labor, Joseph M. Woodward, Associate Solicitor for Occupational Safety and Health, Ann Rosenthal, (Argued), Bruce Justh, Charles F. James, Joanna Hull, United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, for Respondents.