Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Comm'n

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that Congress can create new substantive rights “unknown to the common law”
• finding that Congress enacted OSHA because it found existing state statutory and common law remedies inadequate to protect employees from unsafe working conditions
• noting \distinction between cases of private right and those which arise between the Government and persons subject to its authority\
• leaving open question of whether right to jury trial exists in suit seeking back pay but not reinstatement
• upholding agency adjudications of workplace safety violations despite the existence of “state common-law actions for negligence and wrongful death”
• discussing Jones & Laughlin as an example of Congress having created a public-rights scheme outside the reach of the Seventh Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).