admiralty-law

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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 …