New case from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Beaven v. United States DOJ, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 19927 and can be found here.
New Case from Fifth Circuit – Castellanos-Contreras v. Decatur Hotels LLC
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 and can be found here.
New Case from Eighth Circuit – Fitzgerald Marine & Repair v. Ingram Barge Company
New case from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Fitzgerald Marine & Repair v. Ingram Barge Company, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 17000 and can be found here.
New Case from First Circuit – Bielunas v. F/V Misty Dawn, Inc.
New Jones Act/maintenance and cure case from the First Circuit Court of Appeals. The case is Bielunas v. F/V Misty Dawn, Inc., 2010 U.S. APP Lexis 20855, and the original opinion can be found here.
First paragraph gives a bit of a clue as to how the court is going to hold:
This
New Case from Fifth Circuit – Sea Link Cargo Servs. v. Marine Ctr. Inc.
New case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Sea Link Cargo Servs. v. Marine Ctr. Inc., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 11794, can be found here.
New Case from Second Circuit – G&G Steel, Inc. v. Sea Wolf Marine Transp.
New case from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of G&G Steel, Inc. v. Sea Wolf Marine Transp., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 11824, can be found here.
New Case from Ninth Circuit – American Cargo Transport, Inc. v. U.S.A.
How can you make a Defendant change its position, but lose a lawsuit? Sue the federal government.
A new case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It isn’t an admiralty case, but is an interesting case relating to intra-governmental disputes and civil remedies. The case is American Cargo Transport, Inc. v. U.S.A, and the original
New Case from Ninth Circuit – Tokio Marine Nichido Fire Ins. Co. v. United States
New case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is unpublished and is very, VERY, skimpy on facts, law and analysis. My read is that there was property damage to vehicles caused by soot emanating from a Navy vessel. This case turned on the discretionary function exception to the waiver of sovereign immunity in
Homeland Security – Legal and Policy Issues
Homeland Security – Legal and Policy Issues
Contents
Dedication xiii
Foreword by the Hon. Lee H. Hamilton xv
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Editors xix
About the Authors xxi
Introduction xxxi
Section I
Administration of Homeland Security
Chapter 1
Homeland Security: An Inside Perspective of the Last Seven Years and
Book Review – ABA’s Homeland Security and Emergency Mangement
One advantage to attending an ABA Annual Meeting is that you get to meet some movers and shakers in the legal world. One such mover and shaker is Ernest Abbott, Esq. whom I sat next to at a State and Local Government Section meeting. He was discussing his book on Homeland Security and Emergency Management