West Virginia Court Grants Stay Of Miners’ Challenge To NIOSH Layoffs

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January 29, 2026 at 04:50 PM
A federal district court in West Virginia has stayed a challenge by a pair of coal miners to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) layoffs of most of the staff at a key worker-safety agency last year, after the miners and HHS jointly asked for a pause in the litigation because HHS has now rescinded all the layoff notices.