United States Fourth Circuit

In suit for breach of contract of carriage arising out of underlying maritime dispute, summary judgment for plaintiff is affirmed over claim that the district court erred in finding an aircraft loader was a package for purposes of the liability limitation provision under Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, which limits the carrier's liability to $500 per package.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/28/2008
• Published 01/28/2008

Judges

• Before GREGORY and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges, and JAMES A. BEATY, JR., Chief United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Anne Lobell Murphy, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. John Early Holloway, Hunton & Williams, Norfolk, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney, Robert Greenspan, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.