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Sinochem Int'l Co. Ltd. v. Malaysia Int'l Shipping Corp.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, International Law
A district court has discretion to respond at once to a defendant's forum non conveniens plea, and need not take up first any other threshold...

American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier, LLC v. P&O Ports Baltimore, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Transportation
In case involving damage to ship and cargo caused by equipment that broke free of its lashings at sea, summary judgment for defendant stevedoring...

Carnival Corp. v. Carlisle

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
A cruise line is not vicariously liable for the medical malpractice of the shipboard doctor, committed on a ship's passenger.

Marbulk Shipping, Inc. v. Bhagat

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Evidence
Petition for writ of certiorari to review the trial court's order allowing respondent to take the deposition of petitioner's counsel is denied where...

Scheuring v. Traylor Bros., Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a suit brought by a crane operator on a barge against an employer as a seaman under the Jones Act or as a harbor worker under the Longshore and...

New Hampshire Ins. Co. v. Dagnone

Admiralty, Contracts, Insurance Law
Summary judgment for insurer in a suit over coverage for a boat damaged in a storm is affirmed where the condition of the boat at the time of the...

Anaya v. Traylor Bros., Inc.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action for exemplary damages against an employer, brought by beneficiaries receiving compensation benefits for an employee who suffered fatal...

Terrebonne v. K-Sea Transp. Corp.

Admiralty, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Jones Act and admiralty matter involving an original injury and subsequent "re-injury" sustained by plaintiff-employee on a tug, orders granting...

Ibeto Petrochemical Indus., Ltd. v. M/T Beffen

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Environmental Law, Insurance Law, International Law, Oil and Gas Law
Order granting defendants' motions to compel arbitration, to stay action, and to enjoin an action between the same parties pending in Nigeria, is...

Huseman v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
Summary judgment against plaintiff finding that his Jones Act and unseaworthiness claims against defendant were time-barred and that his maintenance...