Biden Administration Asks SCOTUS to Review Hanford Worker Presumption

President Joe Biden’s administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 2018 Washington state law that created a presumption of compensability for certain conditions suffered by federal workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the nation’s top court to answer whether a state workers’ compensation law that applies exclusively to federal contract workers at a specified federal facility is barred by intergovernmental immunity or authorizes by federal statute the application of s...