Rock of Ages Corporation v. Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, and Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “regulations satisfy due process as long as a reasonably prudent person, familiar with the conditions the regulations are meant to address and the objectives the regulations are meant to achieve, has fair warning of what the regulations require.”
• noting that “an agency’s interpretation of a regulation is not undeserving of deference merely because it is advanced by the agency for the first time”
• due process satisfied if reasonable person, familiar with the law’s objectives, has fair warning of law’s requirements
• “[A] reasonably prudent mine operator would take the Mine Act’s objectives into account when determining its responsibilities to comply with a regulation promulgated thereunder.”
• “Courts have recognized... that regulations need not achieve meticulous specificity and may instead embody flexibility and reasonable breadth.” (quotation omitted)
• no due process violation where “plain language of the standard gives fair notice of what it requires”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).