Court Opinion

ID: 9468786
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:23:43.714382+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:03.459751
License: Public Domain

KEARSE, Circuit Judge
(concurring):
While I believe the granting of priority to the attorney’s lien produces an inequitable *654result when the shipowner is its own stevedore and the suit yields less than the amount the defendant has already paid the longshoreman as compensation plus the fees of the attorney to bring suit, I concur in the judgment on the basis of the legislative history of the 1959 Amendments to the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, Pub.L.No. 86-171, 73 Stat. 391 (amending 33 U.S.C. § 933), discussed in the majority opinion, ante, which suggests that Congress intended the attorney’s lien to have priority.