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- Title: Dore v. Link Belt Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 25, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge: The issue with which we are concerned is whether the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C. § 761 et seq.,1 is the exclusive remedy of claimants in an action growing out of the death of an oil field worker which occurred on a stationary offshore drilling platform on the outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico beyond a marine league from the Louisiana shore. Plaintiffs, who are the surviving wife and children of the deceased worker, contend that the Act, which provides for recovery only for the pecuniary loss sustained, should be supplemented by Louisiana statutory law which provides a broader remedy for damages.2