all - Opinion Summaries

ANDERSON v. PAC. MAR. ASS'N

Admiralty, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
A non-profit association of stevedoring and shipping companies that are the employers longshoremen was not itself the employer of the longshoremen,...

FLORES v. AM. SEAFOODS CO.

Admiralty, Commercial Law, Contracts
An oral explanation of a bonus provision in a written contract did not violate the requirement that a seaman's fishing agreement be in writing and be...

US v. MCPHEE

Admiralty, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sentence for conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, while on board a vessel subject to the...

SANDER v. ALEXANDER RICHARDSON INVS.

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
An exculpatory clause contained in a boat slip rental agreement was valid and enforceable, as the agreement clearly and unequivocally shifted the risk...

MULLANE v. CHAMBERS

Admiralty, Attorney's Fees, Judgement Enforcement
The recording statute relating to federally documented vessels, 46 U.S.C. section 31321, renders an unrecorded bill of sale or conveyance invalid as...

GINES-PEREZ v. KELLY

Admiralty, Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure
The U.S. Customs Service's seizure of a boat belonging to the plaintiff on the ground that a culpable connection existed between the boat and certain...

BROOKS v. RAYMOND DUGAT CO. L C

Admiralty, Civil Procedure
The district court correctly dismissed defendant's second maintenance and cure suit, which contained the same facts and maintenance and cure causes of...

US v. MORENO-MORILLO

Admiralty, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Fifth and Sixth Amendment challenges to the constitutionality of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act are rejected in an appeal arising out of the...

BECKER v. TIDEWATER, INC.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law
A college intern injured at sea on a gravel-packing assignment at an offshore oil rig was not a seaman under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. app. section...

STEVENS SHIPPING AND TERMINAL CO. v. JAPAN RAINBOW II MV

Admiralty, Contracts
A fax confirmation sheet created a rebuttable presumption that defendant delivered the notice and that plaintiff received it. Thus, a prohibition of...