Gaines Ted Huson v. Chevron Oil Company v. Otis Engineering Corporation, Third-Party

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This case is a fallout from Rodrigue 1 21 and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 43 U.S.C.A. § 1331 et seq. As a decision whose major thread in the quest for divination of legislative pur pose was a conviction that Congress thought the interests of workers on the Outer Continental Shelf would be served best by adopting the law of the adjacent state as controlling federal law, the ink was scarcely dry when it became evident that the result might be quite something else. For against ingrained maritime principles of comparative fault, laches and the like, the Bar…