McDermott Inc. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “a person need not pursue administrative remedies if such an act would be futile”
• stating that the unilateral negligence “defense is not actually about an employee’s negligence,” but instead “[t]he employer * * * avoids VSSR liability when ‘[the] employee unilaterally violates a safety requirement’ ” (Emphasis sic.)
• granting writ to vacate VSSR award where employee used his own ultra-light straps to rig a support structure in contravention of direct instructions from employer to use employer-provided straps that complied with the safety requirement
• “a person need not pursue administrative remedies if such an act would be futile”
• \a person need not pursue administrative remedies if such an act would be futile\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).