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LEETE v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION

No. 85-4447.

790 F.2d 418 (1986)

Mary Jane LEETE, Petitioner, v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, and Petroleum Helicopters, Inc. and American Home Assurance Company, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 23, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Elton Dry, Pravel, Gambrell, Hewitt & Kimball, Houston, Tex., for petitioner.

Ralph F. Meyer, Charles D. Kennedy, Houston, Tex., for Petroleum Helicopters and Am. Home Assur. Co.

Marianne Demetral Smith, Donald S. Shire, Assoc. Sol., U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.

Linda Meekins, Clerk, Benefits Review Bd., Washington, D.C., for other interested respondents.

Before WISDOM, REAVLEY, and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Mary Jane Leete brings this petition for review of a decision of the Benefits Review Board denying Leete survivor's benefits under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act on the basis that Mary Jane Leete was not the statutory widow of the decedent-employee, Theodore E. Leete. For the following reasons, the petition for review is granted, the order of the Board reversed, and the cause remanded with instructions to enter an order...

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