Primarily case digests
By James E. Mercante | February 19, 2020
In his Admiralty Law column, James E. Mercante discusses cases in which "the ship hits the fan," causing a cruise to go from dream to nightmare.
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By Sue Reisinger | January 10, 2020
Six months on the job, Carnival's first chief ethics and compliance officer is fixing the cruise operator's compliance system that was so broken a Miami federal judge threatened to jail its top executives.
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By Hannah Smith | January 9, 2020
A Merritt Island-based company lost its attempt to avoid litigation over the cause of a fire blamed on a bow thruster.
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By James E. Mercante | October 18, 2019
Fires at sea are not so rare, just rarely so fatal. In his Admiralty Law column, James E. Mercante discusses some of the noteworthy fire cases litigated in admiralty.
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By Jason Grant | October 10, 2019
The city's Law Department has announced that under a settlement arrived at by consent decree, the electronic billboards traversing Manhattan waterways on a barge and displaying LED-lit ads will be no more.
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By Steven A. Meyerowitz | September 11, 2019
Six crew members claimed they survived by eating rats and insects for nearly a year, a Miami federal judge noted in his order.
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By Brian Melley | September 6, 2019
Truth Aquatics, which owned the Conception, filed an action under a pre-Civil War provision of maritime law that allows it to limit its liability, a time-tested legal maneuver that has been successfully employed by owners of the Titanic and countless other crafts.
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By James E. Mercante | June 26, 2019
Admiralty Law columnist James E. Mercante writes: The U.S. Supreme Court loves all things maritime. So much so, that its first maritime contract dispute was decided in 1781. Now, 238 years after that first contract decision, with many in between, the Supreme Court has its radar set on resolving another important maritime contract dispute.
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By Cindy Matherne Muller | May 10, 2019
Fifth Circuit's Doiron Test for Maritime Contracts
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By Katherine Staton and Morgan Schweinzger | May 8, 2019
The use of drones in commercial operations has grown exponentially in the last seven years and now are being used daily in many industries such as…
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