Legal Opinion
Schmit v. ITT Federal Electric International
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 19, 1993No. 92-1211PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.
An employer seeking to avoid payment of a compensation award attacks the constitutionality of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. For the following reasons we affirm the district court’s order directing payment of the award.
I. BACKGROUND
Not often do our cases originate in Greenland, but it was there in 1981 that William Schmit suffered a work-related injury to his neck and arms. At the time, Schmit was employed as a power plant specialist by ITT Federal Electric International (“Federal Electric”) at the United States Air Force Base in…
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- Schmit v. Itt Federal Electric InternationalCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993