Cooke v. Skyline Swannanoa, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a hotel licensee’s contract with the hotel’s restaurant operator was a subcontracted fraction of the licensee’s contract with the hotel owner, making that hotel licensee the statutory employer of the restaurant’s injured employee
• holding that a hotel licensee’s contract with the hotel’s restaurant operator was a subcontracted fraction of the licensee’s contract with the hotel owner, making that hotel licensee the statutory employer of the restaurant’s injured employee
• stating that the normal work test “comes into play only where an obvious subcontract is not first found”
• stating that the normal work test “comes into play only where an obvious subcontract is not first found”
• noting the controlling term of a license agreement “provides that a substantial and material violation of any of its terms gives [the general contractor] the right to terminate the license”
• the work of the contractor, operation of a restaurant, was a subcontracted fraction of the licensee’s agreement to provide accommodations that included both lodging and food

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).