A federal appeals court rejected a potential class-action lawsuit stemming from a COVID-19 outbreak last year on a cruise ship that sailed from Florida, ruling that the case needed to be filed in Italy.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a district judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Paul Turner, a Wisconsin resident who was a passenger on the Costa Luminosa cruise ship, which left Fort Lauderdale on March 5, 2020, for a transatlantic voyage.
