Legal Opinion
Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 11, 2012No. 10-507PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) extends the federal workers’ compensation scheme established in the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA), 33 U. S. C. §901 et seq., to injuries “occurring as the result of operations conducted on the outer Continental Shelf” for the purpose of extracting natural resources from the shelf. 43 U. S. C. § 1333(b). The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit determined that the OCSLA extends coverage to an employee who can establish a substantial nexus between his injury and his employer’s extractive operations on the…
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