Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. Hensley

456 U.S. 904

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.