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· 3/24/2010

MENOMINEE TRIBAL ENTERPRISES v. Solis

Citations

  • 601 F.3d 669
  • 2010 CCH OSHD 33,052
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 6100
  • 2010 WL 1050273

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  • \[A] federal court has leeway ‘to choose among threshold grounds for denying audience to a case on the merits.’ ” (quoting Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co.
  • holding that OSHA applied to tribe’s operation of a sawmill and related commercial activities
  • rejecting argument that tribal sawmill involved right of self-governance in purely intramural affairs because “[t]he Menominees’ sawmill is just a sawmill, a commercial enterprise”
  • rejecting argument that tribal sawmill involved right of self-governance in purely intramural affairs because “[t]he Menominees’ sawmill is just a sawmill, a commercial enterprise”
  • describing a framework similar to Coeur d’Alene and concluding that OSHA applied to a tribal sawmill
  • \[I]f in fact the off-the-record discussion did concern the issue the appellant now raises

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Judges: Posner, Flaum, Wood

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