Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Hensley
Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth. v. Hensley, 456 U.S. 904 (1982)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1982-03-29
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- "(D)oubtful questions, including factual ones like work-relatedness, must be resolved in favor of claimants."
- "[T]he fact that the injury would not have resulted but for the pre-existing disease, or might just have well been caused by a similar strain at home or at recreation, are both immaterial."
- aggravation of claimant’s underlying psoriasis was compensable injury within meaning of Act
Citator
UpLaw has not yet analyzed Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Hensley. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied.