United States Eleventh Circuit

In a wrongful death action stemming from an explosion aboard a cruise ship, the seamen employment contract exemption, contained in the Federal Arbitration Act, does not shield the plaintiff-crewmembers' employment agreements from arbitration.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/18/2005
• Published 01/19/2005

Judges

• RESTANI, Chief Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, WILSON, Circuit Judge, and RESTANI , Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bruce Rogow, Beverly A. Pohl, Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Jeffrey Robert White, Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C., Washington, DC, for Association of Trial Lawyers of America and Trial Lawyer, Amicus Curiae., David W. Robertson, Dripping Springs, TX, for Apostleship of the Sea of the United States of America, Amicus Curiae., Benjamin Warren Pope, King & Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Dept. of Labor and Employment of the Republic, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher John Bailey, Curtis J. Mase, Mase & Gassenheimer, P.A., Miami, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.