Fifth Circuit Identifies Potential Conflict with Supreme Court on Jones Act Seaman Test
The Energy Law
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
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. Gilbert Sanchez, a welder-fitter employed by SmartFab, never went to sea on vessels. quoting Flagg v.
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