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HUSON v. CHEVRON OIL COMPANY

No. 28448.

430 F.2d 27 (1970)

Gaines Ted HUSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CHEVRON OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, v. OTIS ENGINEERING CORPORATION et al., Third-Party Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel C. Gainsburgh, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Lloyd C. Melancon, New Orleans, La., for Chevron.

Blake West, New Orleans, La., for Otis.

Leonard Fuhrer, Alexandria, La., amicus curiae.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, AINSWORTH and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This case is a fallout from Rodrigue1 and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 43 U.S.C.A. § 1331 et seq. As a decision whose major thread in the quest for divination of legislative purpose was a conviction that Congress thought the interests of workers on the Outer Continental Shelf would be served best by adopting the law of the adjacent state as controlling...

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