Pacific Operators Offshore v. Valladolid, No. 10-507 (merits brief for respondent filed October 31, 2011)

Question Presented: Does § 4(b) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act extend Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act coverage to an injury suffered by an outer-continental-shelf worker during the course of employment while performing a task that is causally connected to specified outer-continental-shelf operations even though the injury itself did not occur on the outer continental shelf?

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