Legal Opinion
Jennifer Griffis, Wife Of/and Leon H. Griffis v. Gulf Coast Pre-Stress Co., Inc. And American Cable Co., Inc., Defendants
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 5, 1988No. 87-3844PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Per curiam
In this appeal we have been asked to determine whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs’ complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Finding that no independent federal cause of action is contemplated in § 5(a) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA), 33 U.S.C. § 905(a), we affirm.
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Leon Griffis allegedly was injured while working on the original construction of two cement barges located on a man-made canal in Louisiana. Halliburton Services employed Griffis and was under contract to American Cable Company (American Cable). American Cable was…
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