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1990 FMSHRC [1] (1990)

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KATHLEEN TARMANN V. INTERNATIONAL SALT
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19900108
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FEDERAL MINE SAFETY & HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C.
January 8, 1990
KATHLEEN I. TARMANN
v.            Docket No. LAKE 89-56-DM
INTERNATIONAL SALT COMPANY
BEFORE: Ford, Chairman; Backley, Doyle, Lastowka, and Nelson,
Commissioners
DIRECTION FOR REVIEW AND ORDER
BY THE COMMISSION:
This discrimination proceeding arises under the Federal Mine Safety
and Health Act of 1977, 30 U.S.C. $ 801 et seq. (1982)(Mine Act). On
November 30, 1989, Commission Administrative Law Judge Avram Weisberger
issued an Order of Dismissal based on the failure of the complainant,
Kathleen I. Tarmann, to respond to the judge's Order to Show Cause why
the case should not be dismissed in view of its reported settlement. On
December 18, 1989, following issuance of the dismissal order, Tarmann's
counsel filed with Judge Weisberger a Brief in Opposition to Dismissal,
requesting that the case be reinstated on the grounds that settlement had
not, in fact, been reached and that counsel had never ... communicated
that it had been reached. On December 20, 1989, respondent International
Salt Company (International Salt) filed with Judge Weisberger a
Memorandum in Response supported by an affidavit, asserting that a
settlement had been reached and opposing reinstatement of the case. Under
the circumstances presented, we deem complainant's Brief in Opposition to
Dismissal to constitute a timely petition for discretionary review, which
we grant. We vacate the judge's dismissal order, and remand for further
proceedings.

On February 27, 1988, Tarmann filed with the Commission a

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