United States Second Circuit

Under the Carmack Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 USC 14706, joint and several liability applies to all shippers of the same cargo even if one shipper's responsibility for the shipping is entirely intrastate.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2000
• Decided 05/04/2001
• Published 05/04/2001

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge:, Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, CABRANES and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick J. Corbett,Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York, NY, for Third-Party-Defendant-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, Mill Transportation Company., David Y. Loh, Nicoletti Hornig Campise & Sweeney, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, Project Hope., Robert A. Milana, London Fischer LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees, United Arab Agencies, Inc. and United Arab Shipping Company.