Judge Dismisses Challenge to Hanford Presumption Law

A U.S. District Court judge has rejected the federal government's challenge of a Washington state law that created an occupational disease presumption for Hanford nuclear site workers. Judge Stanley Bastian on Thursday ruled in favor of defendant Washington state in the lawsuit targeting House Bill 1723, an occupational disease presumption bill signed into law in March 2018. In its complaint, the U.S. Department of Justice claimed that the state law unfairly discriminated against the U.S. Department of Energy and that the presumption violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution...