Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Bennett v. North Carolina
423 U.S. 886
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1975-10-06
- Topic
- labor-and-employment
How later courts describe this case
- the claim of an OCS platform worker killed by platform negligence while aboard a vessel moored nearby was governed by state law as surrogate federal law, but the claims of the crewmembers aboard the same vessel were governed by maritime law
- tort actions arising from offshore oil drilling platform explosion
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421 U. S. 993. Motion for leave to file petition for rehearing denied.