Legal Opinion
Lawrence Bernardo v. Bethlehem Steel Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 7, 1963No. 202, Docket 27619PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEDINA, Circuit Judge.
On April 19, 1956 Lawrence Bernardo, a shore-based welder in the employ of Bethlehem Steel Company, was injured when he fell from a scaffold on a floating drydock in a slip of Bethlehem’s 27th Street shipyard in Brooklyn, New York. In this action against Bethlehem, Bernardo alleged claims under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688, and the general maritime-law; and, as the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act of March 4, 1927, 44 Stat. 1424, 33 U.S.C. § 901 et seq. restricts the benefits of the-Jones Act to “members of the crew of a vessel plying in navigable…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Butler v. WhitemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
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3Cited by16 opinions
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