June 10, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state wage-and-hour laws don't apply to drilling workers off the coast of California, upending a Ninth Circuit decision that said the Golden State's labor law applied to workers on the Outer Continental Shelf.
April 16, 2019
An offshore drilling worker tried to convince skeptical U.S. Supreme Court justices Tuesday that applying California state labor law to an offshore oil rig would not make language in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act pointless.
April 12, 2019
The first week of the U.S. Supreme Court's final oral argument session this term will feature a busy lineup of civil cases involving everything from trademarks for dirty words to wage-and-hour protections for offshore drilling employees. Here's what to expect.
February 21, 2019
Parker Drilling Management Services Ltd. filed its opening brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision that said a stringent California labor law applied to workers on offshore drilling wells, arguing that the offshore rigs were the purview of federal — not state — wage law.
January 11, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review a Ninth Circuit decision that California's wage-and-hour laws apply to offshore drilling workers in the Golden State, a ruling that industry claims conflicts with the Fifth Circuit's conclusion that federal law should apply to workers on the Outer Continental Shelf.