Koch Foods, Inc. v. Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the statute “expressly states that no substantive change is intended by the revisions to the language”
• clarifying that the reasonable belief requirement applies to 49 U.S.C. § 31105(a)(1)(B)(ii) but not to subsection 31105(a)(1)(B)(i)
• reasoning that statutory history bolstered an interpretation of unambiguous statutory text
• “The court reaches Chevron step two only if the statute ‘is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue’ being interpreted by the agency.”
• ‘‘[t]he word ‘because’ suggests a causal connection’’
• ‘‘[t]he word ‘because’ suggests a causal connection’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).