Federal Appellate Coverage

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Auremont Vale’s analysis of consequential decisions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Fifth Circuit · 5th Cir.

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The Court That Put the Mind Outside the Workplace

A refinery technician entered a burning unit twice, and four clinicians later diagnosed him with work-related PTSD. The Fifth Circuit held that OSHA could not require Exxon to record the condition because Congress’s reference to workplace “illnesses” covered only physical illness.

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