Workers' comp for federal inspectors
Goodley v. Supreme Rice
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Rachel E. Goodley’s filing asks whether a federal inspector’s rice inspections and certifications count as part of Supreme Rice’s business, making the inspector an employee of the mill for Louisiana workers’ compensation purposes (a “statutory employee”).
- Who it affects
- The denial gave Goodley and Supreme Rice no Supreme Court answer on whether the inspections were part of the mill’s business or whether Louisiana could treat the federal inspector as its employee.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
It also asks whether Louisiana can apply that rule to a federal inspector doing official regulatory work.
Goodley’s petition described federal rice inspections as impartial, official government services.
Question presented
1. Is the inspection and certification of rice by a federal grain inspector part of the principal trade and business of a rice mill for purposes of determining whether said federal grain inspector is a statutory employee of the rice mill under the “two-contract” theory of the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Act when the purpose of the Federal Grain Inspection Service is to provide impartial and official Government inspection services? 2. Whether a State may apply its workers’ compensation statutory-employer doctrine to treat a federal employee performing official regulatory duties as the statutory employee of the regulated private entity.
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