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June 11, 2019
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Unanimous Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of State Law on the Outer Continental Shelf
On June 10, 2019, a unanimous Supreme Court held that State laws are only applicable on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) as a surrogate federal law when federal law does not address a specific issue.
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