admiralty-law
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-900 | Global Marine Exploration, Inc. v. Republic of France, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | admiralty-law constitutional-avoidance party-presentation salvage-rights statutory-interpretation sunken-military-craft | 1. Whether SMCA's prohibition that "no salvage rights or awards shall be granted" bars all admiralty salvage claims—including long-recognized in perso… | |
| 24-1004 | Aframax River Marine Company v. Suderman and Young Towing Company, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-20 | Denied | Response Waived | admiralty-law fault-apportionment international-code maritime-liability safety-management-system vessel-collision | Under federal admiralty law, whether a court adjudicating and apportioning the fault/liability of the respective parties in a vessel collision/allisio… |
| 24-683 | Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-26 | Denied | Amici (1) | admiralty-law federal-jurisdiction military-liability sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tort-claims | The Federal Tort Claims Act waives the immunity of the United States for money-damages claims based on the negligence or wrongdoing of its employees a… |
| 22-562 | Stephen Douglass, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Shingo Alexander Douglass, et al. v. Nippon Yusen Kabushki Kaisha | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Amici (3) | admiralty-jurisdiction admiralty-law due-process federal-courts federal-rule-civil-procedure fifth-amendment high-seas law-of-nations personal-jurisdiction state-courts | This Court has specifically left open the question of whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on the exercise of personal jurisdicti… |
| 22-500 | Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC | Third Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Judgment Issued | Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | admiralty-law choice-of-law civil-procedure contract-enforcement federal-law maritime-contract public-policy | 1. Under federal admiralty law, what is the standard for judging the enforcement of a choice of law clause in a maritime contract? 2. Under federal a… |
| 22-386 | Andy A. Weimer v. Washington | Washington | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment admiralty-law amendment-eight amendment-seven civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-supremacy due-process jury-trial law-enforcement-conduct | 1. If we are a Constitutional Republic, and the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land, every person, every State, and every Federal agent, has t… |
| 21-1312 | Red Hook Container Terminal, LLC v. South Pacific Shipping Company Limited, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | admiralty-contract admiralty-law federal-maritime-commission implied-contract maritime-law maritime-terminal-operator rates-and-charges shipping-act shipping-act-of-1984 storage-services | 1. The Shipping Act of 1984, as amended, 46 U.S.C. § 40501, allows a marine terminal operator to "make available to the public a schedule of rates, re… | |
| 19-931 | Jay Lawrence Friedheim v. Dane Field | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Denied | admiralty-law attorney-fees bankruptcy civil-procedure jones-act maintenance-and-cure maritime-law seaman-contract | 1. Whether a seaman's wage contract that includes maintenance and cure entitles the prevailing party to attorney's fees under Alyeska Pipeline Serv. C… | |
| 19-519 | Psara Energy Ltd. v. ST Shipping & Transport Pte. Ltd., et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | Response Waived | admiralty-law admiralty-maritime admiralty-maritime-law civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction interpleader jurisdiction maritime-garnishment mootness supplemental-rules | Whether the jurisdiction a court of appeals has over a district court's vacatur of a maritime garnishment under Rule B(1) of the Supplemental Rules fo… |
| 18-8507 | Randall Jennette v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Third Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-1738 admiralty-law admiralty-maritime full-faith-and-credit maritime-contract relief-sought statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court | Whether Tax Court, had subject mattter jurisdiction, under it's Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdictions. To grant Appellee, relief sought in the absence of … |
| 18-1002 | Cynthia Davis, et al. v. Valsamis, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | admiralty-law carnival-cruise-lines carnival-cruise-lines-v-shute contract-interpretation cruise-line-liability fundamental-fairness judicial-scrutiny limitation-of-liability majestic-the maritime-law notice-requirement passenger-ticket passenger-tickets pre-suit-notice the-majestic ticket-limitation | Whether under this Court's holdings in Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute, 499 U.S. 585 (1991) (limitation clauses that are contained within form pa… |
| 18-646 | Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C., et al. v. Entergy Mississippi, Incorporated | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | admiralty admiralty-law comparative-fault maritime-law navigable-waters permit-compliance prejudgment-interest property-interest rivers-and-harbors-act takings tort-action | Land-based decisions in the takings context mandate permit compliance as a threshold for a plaintiff to have a compensable property interest. For the … |