· 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
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- 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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