Smith v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• finding “beyond any doubt that OCSLA is itself a Congressionally mandated choice of law provision requiring that the substantive law of the adjacent state is to apply even in the presence of a choice of law provision in the contract to the contrary”
• “[c]ull value ... should be deducted from cost of production and production costs should not be allocated to culls.”
• “[P]arties must submit data promptly, and be very clear as to what the data indicates.”
• “The whole doctrine of limitations of liability presupposes that a liability exists which is to be limited. If no liability exists there is nothing to limit.”
• “It is beyond any doubt that the OCSLA is itself a Congressionally mandated choice of law provision requiring that the substantive law of the adjacent state is to apply even in the presence of a choice of law provision to the contrary”