all - Opinion Summaries

Broadley v. Mashpee Neck Marina, Inc.

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment in favor of defendant in a personal injury suit arising out of a broken ankle suffered on a dock is reversed where an exculpatory...

De la Rosa v. St. Charles Gaming Co., Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Gaming Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit claiming unseaworthiness in admiralty and negligence under Louisiana's "slip and fall" statute involving a customer's fall while aboard a...

In re: The Exxon Valdez

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Injury & Tort Law, Oil and Gas Law, Remedies
An award of $4.5 billion in punitive damages imposed in litigation arising as a result of the 1989 grounding of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez and the...

Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Comp. Programs

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Construction, Health Law, Workers' Compensation
Orders issued under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act that 1) determined the medical cause of a knee ailment suffered by a Newport...

Cont'l Stevedoring & Terminals, Inc. v. P&O Ports Florida, Inc.

Admiralty, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law
On remand, final judgment in a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief seeking a determination that an offer to buy out plaintiff's interest in a...

H&J Props. Corp. v. Mako Marine Int'l, Inc.

Admiralty, Property Law & Real Estate
Affirmed.

Gables Club Marina v. The Gables Condo. & Club Ass'n, Inc.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
Order vacating a default judgment in plaintiff's favor in a dispute involving ownership rights in a marina is affirmed where the trial court did not...

Simpson v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Government Law, International Law
In case involving Libyan authorities capturing passengers and crew of a yacht that docked in Benghazi during a storm, with allegations of torture,...

US v. Zakharov

Admiralty, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Convictions for drug-related offenses involving a major drug-smuggling operation on Pacific Ocean waters are affirmed where: 1) the amended Maritime...

Fuesting v. Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion Dist.

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a suit involving the allision of a pleasure boat with a partially submerged and abandoned shrimp boat, summary judgment for defendant-district is...