United States Fourth Circuit

An order dissolving an injunction which had been entered pursuant to the Limitation of Liability Act in an admiralty case involving a seaman's injury aboard a tug is affirmed where there was no abuse of discretion in the order since the tug owner's limitation of liability right was being preserved while allowing claimant's Jones Act claim to proceed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/29/2005
• Decided 03/03/2006
• Published 03/03/2006

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, LUTTIG, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  James Long Chapman, IV, Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellant.  Ralph Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz, Swartz, Taliaferro, Swartz & Goodove, P.C., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Stuart P. Sperling, Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, P.L.C., Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellant.