· 4/10/1981
Methel Walker v. Universal Terminal & Stevedoring Corp., Employer, and Midland Insurance Company, Carrier
Citations
- 645 F.2d 170
- 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 14391
- 1982 A.M.C. 1520
How courts have described this case
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- finding 903(c) intoxication defense established, and noting that the rebuttable presumption \falls out of the case\ once stevedore proffers \substantial evidence\ that longshore worker's intoxication was sole cause of injury or death
- scope of review under LHWCA
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Judges: Seitz, Rosenn, Sloviter
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