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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law

Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers. The plaintiff in Endeavor Marine worked on a moored derrick barge on the Mississippi River. 3d at 555.

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Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test

The Energy Law

Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. Its employees work at its shop and yard and occasionally on jacked-up drilling rigs, often docked to inland piers. The plaintiff in Endeavor Marine worked on a moored derrick barge on the Mississippi River. 3d at 555.

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