(February 7, 2018, 12:03 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — State compensation laws of the adjacent state are adopted as surrogate federal law on the Outer Continental Shelf and devices attached to it as long as those state law are “applicable and not inconsistent” with federal law, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 5, quoting in part from the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 43 U.S.C. §§ 1331-1356b (Brian Newton v. Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd., et al., No. 15-56352, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 2844)....