GENERAL OFFSHORE CORP. v. FARRELLY

Civ. No. 147/1988.

743 F.Supp. 1177 (1990)

GENERAL OFFSHORE CORPORATION v. Governor Alexander FARRELLY, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Paul Arnold, Commissioner of Labor of the United States Virgin Islands; Government of the United States Virgin Islands.

United States District Court, D. Virgin Islands, St. Croix Division.

August 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Coon, Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I., for plaintiff.

Godfrey R. de Castro, Atty. Gen., Treston E. Moore, Principal Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Daryl Dodson, Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Thomas, V.I., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

CAHN, District Judge, Sitting by Designation.

The plaintiff, General Offshore Corporation, seeks declaratory and injunctive relief from this court, claiming that the Virgin Islands Wrongful Discharge Act, V.I.Code Ann. title 24, §§ 76-79 (Supp.1989) [hereinafter VIWDA], violates various portions of the United States Constitution made applicable to the Virgin Islands by the Revised Organic Act of 1954, 48 U.S.C. § 1561. The...

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