No. 18-389October Term 2018Decided Jun 10, 2019
Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Newton
This case asked whether California wage-and-hour rules applied to workers on offshore drilling platforms on the Outer Continental Shelf, where federal law generally controls.
Case status
- Current stage
- Decided
- Latest event
- Decision released Jun 10, 2019
- What it's about
This case asked whether California wage-and-hour rules applied to workers on offshore drilling platforms on the Outer Continental Shelf, where federal law generally controls. The Court held that state law can be adopted there only to fill a gap in federal law, not whenever the state rule relates to the dispute.
Question presented
Whether, under OCSLA, state law is borrowed as the applicable federal law only when there is a gap in the coverage of federal law, as the Fifth Circuit has held, or whenever state law pertains to the subject matter of a lawsuit and · is not preempted by inconsistent federal law, as the Ninth Circuit has held.
- Case path
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit / Decision released Jun 10, 2019
- Area
Decided Supreme Court case
Timing
Decided June 10, 2019
The Court released its decision on June 10, 2019 without hearing oral argument.
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Grounding
- Grounding
- Primary-source trail available.
- Note
- Plain-English explainer. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.
- Checked
- Jun 1, 2026
- Method
- Methodology