Hughes v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services

How courts have described this case

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• deferring to Director's interpretation of statutory language in Workers Compensation Act limiting compensation to claimants whose employment was “principally localized in the District of Columbia'’
• deferring to Director's interpretation of statutory language in Workers Compensation Act limiting compensation to claimants whose employment was \principally localized in the District of Columbia\
• deferring to Director's rejection of an interpretation by the Hearing Examiner of another provision at issue in Herring
• mandating consideration of place of employee’s “principal service(s) for which he was hired” then “place of performance” as the first and second prongs, respectively
• “Administrative and judicial efficiency require that all claims be first raised at the agency level to allow appropriate development and administrative response before judicial review.”
• applying Director’s three-pronged test to claim under the 1981 Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).