Court Denies DOL Bid To Reconsider Mental Illness Reporting Rule Vacatur

The 5th Circuit has denied the Labor Department’s (DOL) request for “limited” panel rehearing of a ruling that vacated OSHA’s mental illness reporting rule on the grounds that OSHA lacked statutory authority to promulgate the rule because mental conditions were not considered “illnesses” when the OSH Act was passed in 1970.