Opinion ID: 411725
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: other points of appeal

Text: 45 Fox next challenges the treatment in the district court of the availability of alternative remedies under workers compensation. Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 901 et seq. He refers to the mention of the words workers' compensation during the defendant's opening statements to the jury, and to his request in the district court for a jury instruction pointing out the inapplicability of workers' compensation to this litigation. Fox was unable to provide the district court with specific references in the record to any misleading statements made in the jury's presence, and the district court declined to give the jury such an instruction. We have reviewed the trial record carefully, and find no improper statements made in the presence of jury. We therefore find no grounds to question the district court's rulings on the request for jury instructions, and no reason to call for a new trial. 46 Fox raises a number of other issues on appeal. We have considered them carefully, examined the record for supportive evidence, and find them without weight. Some are desperate pleas frivolous in nature, like his request that we disqualify the district court judge based on the judge's $2. annual dues payment to a civic organization that on occasion had been assisted by counsel for both sides of this case. We find no justification to make a more complicated case out of a narrow, straightforward one. We affirm the decision of the district court. 47 AFFIRMED.