TIDELAND WELDING v. OFFICE OF WKRS' COMP. PRGMS.

No. 86-4885.

817 F.2d 1211 (1987)

TIDELAND WELDING SERVICE and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Petitioners, v. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR and Walter Sawyer and Glynn Rhodes, Claimants, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 1, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin R. Tully, Christovich & Kearney, Robert E. Peyton, New Orleans, La., for petitioners.

George R. Salem, Sol., Dept. of Labor, Joshua T. Gillelan, Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Larry Arcell, New Orleans, La., for Sawyer & Rhodes.

Benefits Review Board, Dept. of Labor, Washington, D.C., for other interested parties.

Before BROWN, REAVLEY and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners Tideland Welding Service and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company petitioned this court to stay and review an administrative law judge's order awarding respondents Walter Sawyer and Glynn Rhodes $130,000 under the Longshoremen and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA). We granted a stay, and expedited proceedings on the matter. We now see that the stay was improperly granted, because we lack jurisdiction over the appeal. We, therefore...

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