WASHINGTON—A lawyer for an offshore oil rig employee who worked on the federally administered Outer Continental Shelf outside the three-mile U.S. jurisdictional limit told a skeptical Supreme Court on April 16 that federal law requires that California employment law be used to resolve the man’s pay dispute with management.
After Texas and North Dakota, California is the third-largest oil-producing state. Oil is produced on 32 offshore platforms and artificial islands in Southern California, according to The Mercury News of San Jose.
