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Brandwein v. Butler

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an action to recover losses allegedly suffered as a result of unsuccessful efforts to salvage plaintiff's 65-foot yacht, which ran aground on a...

The Board of Pilot Commissioners v. Superior Court (Pacific Merchant Shipping Association)

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Government Law, Transportation
The trial court's order compelling the production of certain records held by petitioner's Port Agent under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) is...

Schwirse v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Program

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
The Benefits Review Board properly affirmed the administrative law judge's (ALJ) denial of petitioner's claim for compensation under the Longshore and...

Angelex LTD. v. US

Administrative Law, Admiralty, Environmental Law, International Law, Water Law
The district court's order, which altered the terms of a bond the Coast Guard had fixed for the release of a detained ship that was under...

Bunn v. Oldendorff Carriers GmbH & Co.

Admiralty, Injury & Tort Law, Workers' Compensation
Judgment for plaintiff-longshoreman under section 5(b) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, on his claim for injuries when he...

Padilla v. Maersk Line, Limited

Admiralty, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs, a class of seafarers discharged from service on defendant's ships due to illness or injury, is affirmed,...

Clodfelter v. Republic of Sudan

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law
In a suit brought by the family members of the victims of the U.S.S. Cole bombing against defendant Sudan, the district court's judgment that a...

Institution of Cetacean Research v. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Admiralty, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Water Law
In suit brought under the Alien Tort Statute, by Japanese researchers who hunt whales alleging piracy against defendants, orders denying injunction...

US v. Citgo Asphalt Refining Company

Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In action by parties to apportion monetary liability for damages caused when a tanker stuck an abandoned ship resulting in an oil spill, judgment that...