One of the joys of blogging is to be constantly on the hunt for the jewels of jurisprudence. The fun opinion! A recent admiralty case from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals actually uses the word lubberly.The case is Barlow v. Liberty Maritime and the opinion can be found here. Read the footnotes
March 2014
Commerce on Navigable Waters Issue Going to Supreme Court?
By Mark M. Murakami on
Can a state require a company to obtain permission to operate a vessel/business on a federal navigable waterway without violating the U.S. Constitution? Or, in lawyer speak,
Is the “right to use the navigable waters of the United States” recognized in the Slaughter-House Cases solely a right to navigate such waters or does it also…