The following excerpt is from Sample v. Johnson, 771 F.2d 1335 (9th Cir. 1985):
The district court, citing Cort v. Ash, 422 U.S. 66, 95 S.Ct. 2080, 45 L.Ed.2d 26 (1975), held that an injured longshoreman had no "private right of action" to sue for damages in excess of those prescribed by the
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