Hullinghorst Industries, Inc. v. David E. Carroll, and Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U. S. Department of Labor

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• holding the addition of an “employee” status requirement rendered the “employer” status requirement “largely tautological” since “the injured claimant himself must be engaged in maritime employment”
• “Congress intended that liability should be imposed only where the employer had real or constructive notice of the likelihood of coverage.”
• the maintenance and repair of equipment and facilities \used in indisputably maritime activities lies within the scope of `maritime employment' as that term is used in the Act\
• the maintenance and repair of equipment and facilities “used in indisputably maritime activities lies within the scope of ‘maritime employment’ as that term is used in the Act”
• “We find no decision of this circuit which holds that ‘employer’ status may not be predicated upon the status of the injured claimant as a maritime employee under the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).