DIR., OFF. OF WKRS. COMP. PROG. v. GENERAL DYNAMICS

No. 82-1636.

705 F.2d 562 (1983)

DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, Petitioner, v. GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION and Mary Graziano (Widow of Charles Graziano), Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 22, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet R. Dunlop, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., with whom T. Timothy Ryan, Jr., Sol. of Labor, and Donald S. Shire, Associate Sol., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for petitioner.

Norman P. Beane, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Stephen E. Laskin, and Murphy & Beane, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for General Dynamics Corp.

Before ALDRICH and BREYER, Circuit Judges, and ZOBEL, District Judge.


BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

We would affirm the decision of the Benefits Review Board limiting respondent's liability simply on its opinion, were it not that we believe that the persistent attempt by the Director of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), United States Department of Labor, to limit the scope of section 8(f) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. § 908(f), calls for our articulated views. We...

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