Court Consolidates Silica Rule Challenges But Delays Briefing Schedule

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has formally consolidated the multiple legal challenges to OSHA's silica rule into a single docket, clearing the way for the litigation to begin, though the court, for now, delayed setting a briefing schedule on the merits. Instead, in its April 28 order in North America's Building Trades Unions, v. OSHA , the court set May 31 deadlines for the petitioners to file any procedural motions, statements of issues and...