New case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Salis v. L&M Botruc Rental, Inc., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 10-30068, can be found here.
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New Case from Eighth Circuit – Am. Milling Co. v. Brennan Marine
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New case from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Am. Milling Co. v. Brennan Marine, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 22376, can be found here.
New Case from Ninth Circuit – Nasser ex rel. Dupree v. Dir.
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New case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Will review and comment later, but the opinion in the case of Nasser ex rel. Dupree v. Dir., 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 8584, can be found here.
New Admiralty Case from Ninth Circuit – Bauer v. MRAG Ams., Inc.
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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 Ship’s Mortgage Case from Third Circuit – Goldfish Shipping, S.A. v. HSH Nordbank AG
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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 The court says that it is non-precedential, but it does denote the state of the law with respect to the effect of a judicial sale of an arrested vessel.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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Kewalo Ocean Activities
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New Case from Fifth Circuit – Castellanos-Contreras v. Decatur Hotels LLC
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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 Fifth Circuit – Gulf Coast Shell & Aggregate LP v. Newlin
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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 Gulf Coast Shell & Aggregate LP v. Newlin, U.S. App. LEXIS 21461, can be found here.
New Case from Fifth Circuit – Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC v. La. State
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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 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC v. La. State, U.S. App. LEXIS 21462, can be found here.
Sand Comes and Sand Goes – But Who Owns It?
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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…