County of Los Angeles, Service Delivery Area v. United States Department of Labor

BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:

This is a petition for review of an order of the Secretary of Labor (SoL) dismissing the Los Angeles Service Delivery Area’s (County) complaint and denying the County’s request to intervene as a matter of right in a state administrative proceeding.

We affirm the SoL’s decision in part. We agree that the County does not have a right to a hearing under 29 U.S.C. § 1576(a). We have concluded, however, the SoL erred in ruling that the County, pursuant to 29 C.F.R. § 18.10(b) (1988), did not have the right to intervene in the State’s Department of Labor (DoL) proceeding. We…