Legal Opinion
MENOMINEE TRIBAL ENTERPRISES v. Solis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 24, 2010No. 09-2806PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Menominee Indian tribe owns a sawmill on its reservation in Wisconsin. The Department of Labor cited the tribe (technically the tribal entity that operates the sawmill, but it has no substantial existence apart from the tribe) for violations of OSHA, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651 et seq., rejecting the tribe’s contention, renewed in this petition to review the Department’s decision, that it is exempt. The Department asks us to ignore some of the arguments that the tribe makes on the ground that they were not made at the administrative level. That may be right, but they are pure…
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