Court Opinion

ID: 9469490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:41:44.125648+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:24.680381
License: Public Domain

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur fully in Judge Politz’s opinion but I would add these brief comments.
The case on this meager record ought never to have been appealed to this Court. The decision to do so reflects a disturbing misunderstanding of the agency’s highest legal officer on the minimal proofs (and findings) needed to sustain “jurisdictional” application of OSH A and thereby justify imposing on this Court the burden of hear*909ing, reviewing and deciding a case of obviously no appellate merit.
Nothing has been established by all of this “legal” effort save that the Secretary’s prosecutor must establish by acceptable means the minimal showing that the employer’s activities bring it within the Act. Everyone knew this all along. An appeal was not necessary to remind the agency of what it already knew and which we have stated so many many times.