Grand Isle Shipyard Inc. v. SEACOR MARINE, LLC.

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge,

with whom JENNIFER W. ELROD and LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges, join, dissenting:

We are asked to determine whether the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act choice-of-law provision, 43 U.S.C. § 1333(a)(2)(A), requires application of the Louisiana Oilfield Indemnity Act to an indemnity agreement triggered by an injury to a platform worker that occurred on a vessel on the high seas. Pursuant to a “focus-of-the-contract” test, and directly contrary to the Supreme Court’s admonishment that Congress meant for situs to be determined by locale and not by the status of…