United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving injury to respondent while working for petitioner, petition for review of Benefits Review Board decision granting attorney's fees to respondent under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act is denied as respondent satisfied all the requirements of 33 U.S.C. section 928(b).

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/07/2007
• Published 02/07/2007

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and HENRY F. FLOYD, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jonathan Henry Walker, Mason, Mason, Walker & Hedrick, P.C., Newport News, Virginia, for Petitioner.  Rita A. Roppolo, United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, D.C.;   Gregory Edward Camden, Montagna, Klein, Camden, L.L.P., Norfolk, Virginia, for Respondents.   ON BRIEF:  Charlene Parker Brown, Montagna, Klein, Camden, L.L.P., Norfolk, Virginia, for Respondent David Hassell;  Howard M. Radzely, Solicitor of Labor, Allen H. Feldman, Associate Solicitor, Mark A. Reinhalter, for Longshore, United States Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Washington, D.C., for Federal Respondent.