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374 citation events (374 in the last 25 years) across 21 distinct courts.
Strongest positive: Cox v. Berryhill (dcd, 2022-01-19)
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examined Cited as authority (verbatim quote) Cox v. Berryhill (8×) also: Cited as authority (rule), Cited "see"
D.D.C. · 2022 · signal: see also · quote attribution · 1 verbatim quote · confidence high
t would be unlawfully retroactive to apply the definitions to any claims other than those filed on or after the regulations' effective date.
discussed Cited as authority (verbatim quote) Arch Coal, Inc. v. R. Alexander Acosta
D.C. Cir. · 2018 · signal: see also · quote attribution · 1 verbatim quote · confidence high
it is important to note that did not involve a regulation.
examined Cited as authority (verbatim quote) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
E.D. Wis. · 2016 · quote attribution · 1 verbatim quote · confidence high
less obviously, the regulations preclude the courts in other circuits from adopting the view of their sister court rejecting the secretary's position, a possibility that was still available when the cases were initially filed.
examined Cited as authority (verbatim quote) Arkema Inc. v. Environmental Protection Agency (3×) also: Cited as authority (rule)
D.C. Cir. · 2010 · signal: see · quote attribution · 2 verbatim quotes · confidence high
if a new regulation is substantively inconsistent with a ... prior agency practice, ... it is retroactive....
discussed Cited as authority (quoted) Citizen Potawatomi Nation v. Scarlett
D.D.C. · 2009 · quote attribution · 1 verbatim quote · confidence low
the d.c. circuit recently reaffirmed the principle of law that the apa provides a default standard of review where a statute does not otherwise provide a standard.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Chiesi USA, Inc. v. Becerra
D.D.C. · 2025 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Lab., 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.
examined Cited as authority (rule) Wilgar Land Co. v. OWCP (3×) also: Cited "see"
6th Cir. · 2023 · confidence medium
I A After years of working in dust-filled coal mines, many miners develop a respiratory condition medically known as “pneumoconiosis” and commonly known as “black lung disease.” See Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Lab., 292 F.3d 849, 854 (D.C.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Seia v. Ferc
9th Cir. · 2023 · confidence medium
FERC 1059 , 1072 (9th Cir. 2021) (applying the principles of Landgraf to the analysis of regulatory retroactivity); National Mining Ass’n v. Department of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.
examined Cited as authority (rule) Angela Cox v. Kilolo Kijakazi (9×) also: Cited "see"
D.C. Cir. · 2023 · confidence medium
Cox II, 2022 WL 178953 , at *7 (alteration in original) (quoting National Mining Ass’n v. Department of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 864 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Secretary of Labor v. Westfall Aggregate & Materials, Inc. (2×) also: Cited "see"
D.C. Cir. · 2023 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Lab., 292 F.3d 849, 871 (D.C.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Texas Medical Association v. United States Department of Health and Human Services
E.D. Tex. · 2023 · confidence medium
E.g., Docket No. 62 at 23 (citing, e.g., Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 868 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Kyler v. Saul (2×) also: Cited "see"
D.D.C. · 2022 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Lab., 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Public Citizen Health Research Group v. Acosta
D.D.C. · 2019 · confidence medium
But a “provision operates retroactively when it ‘impair[s] rights a party possessed when he acted, increase[s] a party’s liability for past conduct, or impose[s] new duties with respect to transactions already completed.’” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (per curiam) (quoting Landgraf v. USI Film Prods., 511 U.S. 244, 280 (1994)).
cited Cited as authority (rule) American Bar Association v. United States Department of Education
D.D.C. · 2019 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.
examined Cited as authority (rule) American Federation of Government Employees, Afl-Cio v. Trump (3×) also: Cited "see", Cited "see, e.g."
D.D.C. · 2018 · confidence medium
See, e.g., Free Enter., 561 U.S. at 490 (challenging the very existence of an administrative agency, not any proceeding before that agency); Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of the Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 855 (D.C.
examined Cited as authority (rule) American Federation of Government Employees, Afl-Cio v. Trump (3×) also: Cited "see", Cited "see, e.g."
D.D.C. · 2018 · confidence medium
See, e.g., Free Enter., 561 U.S. at 490 (challenging the very existence of an administrative agency, not any proceeding before that agency); Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of the Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 855 (D.C.
examined Cited as authority (rule) American Federation of Government Employees, Afl-Cio v. Trump (3×) also: Cited "see", Cited "see, e.g."
D.D.C. · 2018 · confidence medium
See, e.g., Free Enter., 561 U.S. at 490 (challenging the very existence of an administrative agency, not any proceeding before that agency); Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of the Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 855 (D.C.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Kirwa v. United States Department of Defense
D.D.C. · 2018 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Grant Medical Center v. Hargan
D.D.C. · 2017 · confidence medium
Second, the Hospitals have this circuit’s retroactivity law backwards: while we have prohibited retroactive application of a rule that disadvantages a party by “effecting] a substantive change from the agency's prior-regulation,” National Mining Association v. Department of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Grant Medical Center v. Eric D. Hargan
D.C. Cir. · 2017 · confidence medium
Second, the Hospitals have this circuit’s retroactivity law backwards: while we have prohibited retroactive application of a rule that disadvantages a party by “effect[ing] a substantive change from the agency’s prior regulation,” National Mining Association v. Department of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Kirwa v. United States Department of Defense
D.D.C. · 2017 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Jafarzadeh v. Duke
D.D.C. · 2017 · confidence medium
Cir. 2002) (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 858 (D.C.
examined Cited as authority (rule) Arch Coal, Inc. v. Hugler (6×) also: Cited "see"
D.D.C. · 2017 · confidence medium
Statutory and Regulatory Background The Black Lung Benefits Act, 30 U.S.C. § 901 et seq., “providfes] benefits to coal miners who are totally disabled by pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease, and to the surviving dependents of miners who died of the disease.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 854 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Bartko v. Securities & Exchange Commission (2×)
D.C. Cir. · 2017 · confidence medium
That is, we look to see if the law “impair[s] rights a party possessed when he acted, increase[s] a party’s liability for past conduct, or impose[s] new duties with respect to transactions already completed.” Nat'l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Abington Memorial Hospital v. Burwell (2×)
D.D.C. · 2016 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Grant Medical Center v. Burwell (2×) also: Cited "see"
D.D.C. · 2016 · confidence medium
“If a new regulation is substantively inconsistent with a prior regulation, prior agency practice, or any Court of Appeals decision rejecting a prior regulation or agency practice, it is retroactive as applied to pending claims.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.
cited Cited as authority (rule) National Federation of the Blind v. United States Department of Transportation
D.C. Cir. · 2016 · confidence medium
NFB argues that our precedent, including National Mining Ass’n v. DOL, 292 F.3d 849, 856, 858-59 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Regents of the University of California v. Burwell (2×)
D.D.C. · 2016 · confidence medium
“The general legal principles governing retroactivity are relatively easy to state, although not as easy to apply.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.Cir.2002).
cited Cited as authority (rule) Eastern Associated Coal Corp. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
4th Cir. · 2015 · confidence medium
Thus, “[t]he medical literature makes it clear that pneumoconiosis” — even in its simple form — “may be latent and progressive.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n, 292 F.3d at 863; accord RAG Am.
cited Cited as authority (rule) New York Republican State Committee v. Securities & Exchange Commission
D.C. Cir. · 2015 · confidence medium
Id. at 859.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) New York Republican State Committee v. Securities and Exchange Commission
D.D.C. · 2014 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Department of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 856 (D.C.Cir.2002). 8 Notwithstanding the ordinary distinction in meaning between “orders” and “rules” in construing a review statute, the decision in Investment Company Institute was premised primarily upon a policy determination: “If the administrative record forms the basis for review, requiring petitioners challenging regulations to go first to the district court results in unnecessary delay and expense, .. ■. and undesirable bifurcation of the reviewing function between the district courts and the courts of appeals.” 551 F.2d at …
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Mohan Kutty v. United States Dep't of Labor
6th Cir. · 2014 · confidence medium
However, we agree that application of the current regulation raises no retroactivity concerns because it merely clarifies a pre-existing requirement and does not "attach[] new legal consequences to events completed before its enactment.” See National Mining Ass’n v. Dep't of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.Cir.2002) (citation omitted).
cited Cited as authority (rule) Peabody Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
9th Cir. · 2014 · confidence medium
Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 855 (D.C.Cir.2002).
cited Cited as authority (rule) Weaver v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
D.C. Cir. · 2014 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 856 (D.C.Cir.2002).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) CS-360, LLC v. United States Small Business Administration
D.D.C. · 2013 · confidence medium
Circuit has emphasized that “in the administrative context, a rule is retroactive if it takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing law, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past.” National Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.Cir.2002) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) American Forest Resource Council v. Ashe
D.D.C. · 2013 · confidence medium
See Advocates, 429 F.3d at 1148-50 (rejecting argument that “it is inappropriate [under Sims ] to apply the general principles of issue waiver to administrative rulemaking”); see also, e.g., Koretoff, 707 F.3d at 398-99 ; Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 874 (D.C.Cir.2002); Nat’l Wildlife Fed’n v. EPA, 286 F.3d 554 , 562 (D.C.Cir.2002) (per curiam) (“We decline to reach .the merits of NWF’s cost estimate challenges because neither NWF nor any other party before the agency raised any of these contentions during the administrative phase of the rulemaking proc…
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Coalition for Common Sense in Government Procurement v. United States
D.C. Cir. · 2013 · confidence medium
In the legal sense of the term, retroactivity occurs when a statute or rule “takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing law, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past.” National Mining Association v. Department of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.Cir.2002) (internal quotation marks omitted).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Columbia Saint Mary's Hospital Milwaukee, Inc. v. Sebelius (2×) also: Cited "see"
D.D.C. · 2012 · confidence medium
To determine whether a rule is impermissibly retroactive, the Court must “first look to see whether it effects a substantive change from the agency’s prior regulation or prac *180 tice.” National Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.Cir.2002).
examined Cited as authority (rule) Catholic Health Initiatives Iowa Corporation v. Sebelius (3×) also: Cited "see"
D.D.C. · 2012 · confidence medium
To determine whether a rule is "impermissibly" retroactive, courts "first look to see whether [the rule] effects a substantive change from the agency’s prior regulation or practice." Id. at 14 (quoting Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.Cir.2002)).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Select Specialty Hospital - Akron, LLC v. Sebelius
D.D.C. · 2011 · confidence medium
To determine whether a rule is impermissibly retroactive, the Court “first look[s] to see whether it effects a substantive change from the agency’s prior regulation or practice.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.Cir.2002).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Northeast Hospital Corp. v. Sebelius
D.C. Cir. · 2011 · confidence medium
To determine whether a rule .is impermissibly retroactive, “we first look to see whether it effects a substantive change from the agency’s prior regulation or practice.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 860 (D.C.Cir.2002).
cited Cited as authority (rule) Davis v. World Savings Bank, Fsb
D.D.C. · 2011 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.Cir.2002).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Forsyth Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. Sebelius
D.C. Cir. · 2011 · confidence medium
BROWN, Circuit Judge, dissenting from the denial of rehearing en banc: On Petition for Rehearing En Banc “An agency may not promulgate retroactive rules absent express congressional authority.” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.Cir.2002) (citing Bowen v. Georgetown Univ.
cited Cited as authority (rule) Lake Carriers' Ass'n v. Environmental Protection Agency
D.C. Cir. · 2011 · confidence medium
Partnership v. Salazar, 553 F.3d 697, 707 (D.C.Cir.2009); Nevada v. Dep’t of Energy, 457 F.3d 78 , 88 *8 (D.C.Cir.2006); Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 874 (D.C.Cir.2002). 2.
cited Cited as authority (rule) National Petrochemical & Refiners Ass'n v. Environmental Protection Agency
D.C. Cir. · 2011 · confidence medium
Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 859 (D.C.Cir. 2002).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Helen Mining Co. v. Director OWCP (2×) also: Cited "see"
3rd Cir. · 2011 · confidence medium
The rule is instead designed to preventf] operators from claiming that pneumoconiosis is never latent and progressive.’ ” Midland Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, 358 F.3d at 491 (quoting National Mining Association, 292 F.3d at 863). 6 . 20 C.F.R. § 725.309 (d).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Ispat/Inland, Inc. v. Director OWCP (2×)
3rd Cir. · 2011 · confidence medium
See 20 C.F.R. § 725.103 ; Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 861 (D.C.Cir.2002) (“a claimant ... bears the burden of demonstrating that he meets all of the relevant conditions”).
examined Cited as authority (rule) Gunderson v. United States Department of Labor (5×) also: Cited "see, e.g."
10th Cir. · 2010 · confidence medium
Pneumoconiosis “encompasses a cruel set of conditions that afflict a significant percentage of the nation’s coal miners with ‘severe, and frequently crippling, chronic respiratory impairment.’ ” Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 854 (D.C.Cir.2002) (quoting Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co., 428 U.S. 1, 6 , 96 S.Ct. 2882 , 49 L.Ed.2d 752 (1976)).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Live365, Inc. v. Copyright Royalty Board
D.D.C. · 2010 · confidence medium
However, the constitutional facial challenges here “advance[] a ‘broad-scale attack’ . . . to the [Copyright] Act itself that is not ‘of the type Congress intended to be reviewed within this statutory structure.” Free Enter., 537 F.3d at 671 (quoting Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 856 (D.C.
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Live365, Inc. v. Copyright Royalty Board
D.D.C. · 2010 · confidence medium
However, the constitutional facial challenges here “advancef ] a ‘broad-scale attack’ ... to the [Copyright] Act itself that is not ‘of the type Congress intended to be reviewed within this statutory structure.’ ” Free Enter., 537 F.3d at 671 (quoting Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Dep’t of Labor, 292 F.3d 849, 856 (D.C.Cir.2002) and Thunder Basin Coal Co. v. Reich, 510 U.S. 200, 212 , 114 S.Ct. 771 , 127 L.Ed.2d 29 (1994)); cf. Am.
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Natl Mining Assn
v.
DOL
01-5278.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Jun 18, 2002.
292 F.3d 849
United States Court of Appeals
for the district of columbia circuit

No. 01-5278 September Term, 2001 00cv03086

National Mining Association, et al.,
Appellants Filed On: June 14, 2002 [683610]

v.

Department of Labor, et al.,
Appellees

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the District of Columbia
(No. 00cv03086)

Before: Edwards and Tatel, Circuit Judges, and Silberman, Senior Circuit Judge.

O R D E R

It is ORDERED, that the Opinion filed on June 14, 2002, be amended, as follows:

Page 38, paragraph under Conclusion section, line 2, delete the word "instructions" and insert the word "proceedings"

Per Curiam FOR THE COURT: Mark J. Langer, Clerk

BY:

Linda Jones Deputy Clerk