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Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Greenwich Collieries
Supreme Court of the United States (1994) | 129 L. Ed. 2d 221; 114 S. Ct. 2251; 512 U.S. 267; 1994 U.S. LEXIS 4669
TL;DR: The Supreme Court held that the Administrative Procedure Act's "burden of proof" provision refers to the burden of persuasion. Consequently, the Department of Labor's "true doubt" rule, which awarded benefits to claimants when evidence was tied, was invalid as it improperly shifted this burden.
Legal Significance: The case established that § 7(c) of the Administrative Procedure Act allocates the ultimate burden of persuasion to the proponent of an order in formal adjudications, limiting agency discretion to shift this burden through procedural rules like the "true doubt" rule.