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· 8/22/1980

Sun Ship, Inc. v. Pennsylvania

Citations

  • 447 U.S. 715
  • 100 S. Ct. 2432
  • 65 L. Ed. 2d 458
  • 1980 U.S. LEXIS 50

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that state workers' compensation schemes fall outside the Longshore Act's preemptive reach
  • by repealing provision “Congress may simply have endeavored to reaffirm the correctness of the Calbeck result by removing possibly contradictory language”
  • by repealing provision \Congress may simply have endeavored to reaffirm the correctness of the Calbeck result by removing possibly contradictory language\
  • federal coverage and state coverage for longshore and harbor workers are not mutually exclusive
  • federal coverage and state coverage for longshore and harbor workers are not mutually exclusive
  • 1972 LHWCA amendments supplement, rather than supplant, state law

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Judges: BreNNAn, Brennan

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