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SCHMIT v. ITT FEDERAL ELEC. INTERN.

No. 92-1211.

986 F.2d 1103 (1993)

William K. SCHMIT, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, United States Department of Labor, Intervening-Appellee, v. ITT FEDERAL ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL; Pacific Employers Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 19, 1993.

Rehearing Denied March 22, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William K. Schmit, pro se.

Gregory P. Sujack (argued), David F. Buysse, Garofalo, Hanson, Schreiber & Vandlik, Chicago, IL, for defendants-appellants.

Eileen M. McCarthy, Dept. of Labor, Appellate Litigation, Donald S. Shire, Sol. Gen., Joshua T. Gillelan, II (argued), Marianne Demetral Smith, Office of the Sol., Louis W. Rogers, Office of Workers' Compensation Program, Washington, DC, for intervening-appellee.

Before FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

An employer seeking to avoid payment of a compensation award attacks the constitutionality of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. For the following reasons we affirm the district court's order directing payment of the award.

I. BACKGROUND

Not often do our cases originate in Greenland, but it was there in 1981 that William Schmit suffered a work-related injury to his neck and arms. At the...

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