Mealey's (August 21, 2020, 10:05 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 19 upheld a ruling awarding summary judgment to the state of Washington, finding that an amendment to the state's workers' compensation law that allowed U.S. Department of Energy contractors and subcontractors who performed remediation work at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a decommissioned federal nuclear production site, to pursue state workers' compensation claims, did not violate the doctrine of intergovernmental immunity (United States v. Washington, et al., No. 19-35673, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 26308)....