Legal matters of maritime concern in Hawaii, Oceania, and beyond.
New case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals relating to commercial vessel owner liability for injuries to federal fisheries observers. Not surprisingly, owners are immune from such suits. The case is Bauer v. MRAG Ams., Inc., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 22111, and the source opinion can be found here.
As a general rule, an observer…
New case from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals involving ship’s mortgages and judicial sales of vessels. The court says that it is non-precedential, but it does denote the state of the law with respect to the effect of a judicial sale of an arrested vessel.
Would that all appeals courts write as succintly:
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New case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Castellanos-Contreras v. Decatur Hotels LLC, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 21562, can be found here.
New case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Gulf Coast Shell & Aggregate LP v. Newlin, U.S. App. LEXIS 21461, can be found here.
New case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC v. La. State, U.S. App. LEXIS 21462, can be found here.
Accretion. Does a property owner have an intangible right to future accretion or merely the right to the land when it accretes? This question and more in a Hawaii case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. Hawaii case. My partner Robert Thomas posted this case at…
New case from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Uralde v. United States, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 17283, and can be found Download Uralde v. United States
New admiralty case from the Ninth Circuit Court ofAppeals. Will review and comment later,but the opinion in the case of Crowley Mar.Corp. v. Fed. Ins. Co., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 7333, and can be found here.
New admiralty case from the Fifth Circuit Court ofAppeals. Will review and comment later,but the opinion in the case of TradeArbed inc. v. Western Bulk Carries K/S, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 1755 and can be found here.
