| 25-6715 |
Cristian Chaverra Moreno v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power constitutional-interpretation define-and-punish-clause high-seas international-jurisdiction maritime-law |
Under the Define and Punish Clause and the Founders' understanding of sea zones, does Congress have the authority to punish felonies that occur in ano… |
| 25-750 |
Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC |
Louisiana |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
|
causation-standard daubert-standard jones-act maritime-law scientific-evidence toxic-tort |
Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer's negligence play "any part, even the s… |
| 25-6314 |
Jose Fernando Lopez-Anchundia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-law |
1. Does Congress's power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas," authorize the United States to impose its laws upon forei… |
| 25-6270 |
Jhon Henry Alvarado-Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
congressional-power criminal-prosecution drug-enforcement extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-waters maritime-law |
Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 of the United States Constitution empowers Congress "[t]o define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the hig… |
| 25-46 |
Boat Santa Rita II, Inc. v. Magnus Aadland |
First Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
court-of-appeals maintenance-and-cure maritime-law punitive-damages standard-of-review vessel-owner |
Under the general maritime law of maintenance and cure, what standard governs the award of punitive damages where a vessel owner provides maintenance … |
| 24-7231 |
Christian Leonardo Franco Posligua v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-enforcement extraterritorial-statute guilty-plea maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), does a district court have authority to make its "preliminary" determination of "jur… |
| 24-6691 |
Jose Miguel Rosario-Rojas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-power criminal-jurisdiction exclusive-economic-zone high-seas international-law maritime-law |
Whether Congress's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10 power "[t]o define and punish . . . Felonies committed on the high Seas" authorizes the United Stat… |
| 24-899 |
Milos Product Tanker Corporation v. Valero Marketing and Supply Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cargo-freight carrier-exception dominion-over-cargo legal-uniformity maritime-law shipping-commerce |
Under maritime law, a receiver of cargo who has not paid freight, and who (before exercising dominion over the cargo) is given notice to pay freight t… |
| 24-849 |
Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased, et al. v. The Boeing Company, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
admiralty-jurisdiction diversity-jurisdiction federal-court maritime-law subject-matter-jurisdiction wrongful-death |
Whether a federal court can have exclusive admiralty jurisdiction over a claim when a non-admiralty state court would have concurrent jurisdiction ove… |
| 24-6177 |
Jhonathan Alfonso v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
congressional-power criminal-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone high-seas maritime-law territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether Congress's Article I, Section 8, Clause 10 power "[t]o define and
punish ... Felonies committed on the high Seas" authorizes the United States… |
| 24A541 |
Laura Smith, as Duly Appointed Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Andrea Manfredi, Deceased v. The Boeing Company, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
admiralty-jurisdiction death-on-high-seas-act federal-jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-law seventh-amendment |
Is federal admiralty jurisdiction under the Death on the High Seas Act (DOHSA), 46 U.S.C. §§ 30301-08, concurrent, or exclusive? |
| 24A528 |
Lexington Insurance Company, et al. v. Suquamish Tribe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
environmental-contamination federal-jurisdiction insurance-coverage maritime-law policy-interpretation preemption |
Question not identified. |
| 24A351 |
Energetic Tank, Inc., as Owner of the M/V Alnic MC v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
counterclaim feres-doctrine maritime-law public-vessels-act sovereign-immunity suits-in-admiralty-act |
Question not identified. |
| 24-397 |
Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
|
admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-courts maritime-law navigational-capacity-test negligence-liability |
1. Does the navigational capacity test used by the
Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on… |
| 24-360 |
Sikousis Legacy, Inc., et al. v. B-Gas Limited, aka Bepalo LPG Shipping Ltd., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admiralty-jurisdiction attachment-case equitable-principles judicial-discretion maritime-law property-seizure |
Whether a court exercising jurisdiction in an admiralty attachment case, whereby it must decide the ownership of the property seized based on the equi… |
| 24A224 |
Port of Tacoma, et al. v. Puget Soundkeeper Alliance |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clean-water-act environmental-preemption federal-regulation maritime-law ninth-circuit port-operations |
Question not identified. |
| 24-223 |
Paragon Asset Company, Ltd. v. American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
contract-interpretation force-majeure maritime-law parol-evidence reasonable-care shipowner-liability |
1. Whether , under federal maritime law, the
unambiguous terms of a written maritime
contract cannot be altered by parol
evidence, as this Court ha… |
| 24-5159 |
Luis Marin and Luis Chavez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-authority constitutional-power due-process felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-status |
I. Whether Congress' authority to "define and punish...Felonies committed on the high Seas," U.S. Const. art. I § 8, cl. 10 (the "Felonies Clause"), i… |
| 23-1335 |
Harley Marine Financing, LLC v. Tug Construction, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bareboat-charter clearly-erroneous contract-breach evidentiary-support findings-of-fact maritime-law trial-record vessel-condition |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar… |
| 23-7637 |
Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua, aka Nexon Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-interdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-limit law-enforcement maritime-drug-law maritime-law military-law-enforcement miranda-warnings sixth-amendment |
WHETHER the jurisdictional limit contained in the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act relates to the legislative reach of the statute or whether it rela… |
| 23-1246 |
Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
|
contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law |
Can oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualify as "maritime commerce," triggering the application of maritim… |
| 23-948 |
Texas Aromatics, L.P., et al. v. Intercontinental Terminals Company, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absurd-consequences administrative-claim environmental-regulation federal-jurisdiction hazardous-substance maritime-law mixed-spill oil-pollution-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Oil Pollution Act, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., applies to a spill that is 91% oil and 9% a "hazardous substance." |
| 23-6378 |
Gilmer Diaz-Jaramillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-jurisdiction criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause due-process felony-on-high-seas foreign-nationals interlocutory-review maritime-drug-enforcement maritime-law standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie… |
| 23-6240 |
Jesus Salvador Gonzalez-Lunar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation covered-vessel criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-determination jury-trial maritime-law proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt, or an adequate factual basis during a guilty plea, to find that a … |
| 23-6044 |
Cristian Rodriguez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure define-and-punish-clause felonies-on-high-seas felony-on-the-high-seas international-law laws-of-nations maritime-drug-enforcement-law maritime-law piracy-principles subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether denial of a pretrial challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction under the Maritime Drug Enforcement Law warrants interlocutory revie… |
| 22-7893 |
Liver Gruezo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction law-enforcement-procedures maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona stateless-vessel |
1. Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA"), 46 U.S.C. § 70501, et. seq., violates Due Process because its enforcement procedures are v… |
| 22-7442 |
Paulino Vasquez-Rijo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-enforcement exclusive-economic-zone felonies-clause high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law stateless-vessels vessel-nationality |
1. Whether MDLEA §70502(d)(1)(C) is Unconstitutional Because Its Definition of "a Vessel Without Nationality," Provides for Foreign Vessels to Be Deem… |
| 22-805 |
BG Gulf Coast LNG, L.L.C., et al. v. Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
commerce-clause congressional-consent constitutional-interpretation harbor-navigation maritime-law port-fees takings tonnage-clause user-fees |
The question presented is whether the Act permits localities to charge fees for incomplete and unusable increments of a harbor navigation project. |
| 22-6409 |
Victor Gaspar Chichande v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
criminal-procedure detention-conditions drug-enforcement drug-law-enforcement due-process foreign-nationals human-rights international-law maritime-interdiction maritime-law |
Why do the courts of this country sanction the forced apprehension of foreign nationals who are chained to the steel decks of United States Coast Guar… |
| 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… |
| 21-728 |
Pedro Dino Cedado Nuñez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split criminal-procedure customary-international-law drug-enforcement international-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-test maritime-drug-law maritime-law statutory-interpretation vessel-nationality |
The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act authorizes the United States to prosecute certain drug crimes committed aboard a "covered vessel." 46 U.S.C. § 7… |
| 20-1779 |
Carlos A. Morales-Vázquez v. Óptima Seguros |
First Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
contract-avoidance disclosure federal-maritime-law insurance-disclosure marine-insurance maritime-insurance maritime-law material-risk materiality reliance uberrimae-fidei |
Does the traditional doctrine of wberrimae fidei continue to apply in its strict form (as held by the First Circuit in the decision below and also by … |
| 20-8192 |
Jorge Ramon Newball-May v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure jurisdiction jury-trial maritime-drug-law maritime-law pre-trial-hearing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. 70501 et. seq., is unconstitutional on its face and in violation of the Sixth Amendment right… |
| 20-7910 |
Johvanny Aybar-Ulloa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-i-section-8-clause-10 congress-authority congressional-authority constitutional-interpretation felony-jurisdiction high-seas international-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law statelessness universal-jurisdiction vessel-status |
I. Whether Congress's authority to define and punish felonies committed on the high seas is unconstrained by Article I, § 8, cl. 10 to the United Stat… |
| 20-1446 |
Patricia LaCourse, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lt. Colonel Matthew LaCourse v. PAE Worldwide Incorporated, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
boyle-v-united-technologies civil-procedure death-on-high-seas-act death-on-the-high-seas-act discretion-in-contract-performance government-contractor-defense jury-trial maritime-law summary-judgment |
1. Did the Court of Appeals err in extending the federal common law "government contractor defense" established in Boyle v. United Technologies Corp.,… |
| 20-1013 |
Clarence J. Simon v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
|
administrative-procedure benefits-disqualification collateral-estoppel compensation-benefits lhwca-section-33(g) longshore-worker longshore-workers-compensation maritime-law settlement-authority third-party-settlement |
Is a longshore worker permanently disqualified from receiving any benefits from his employer because his counsel, who lacked actual or apparent author… |
| 20-6063 |
Madhu Sameer v. The Right Move 4 U, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
bill-of-lading cargo-damage conversion fraud harter-act insurance insurance-fraud international-shipping maritime-law multimodal-transport |
In June 2015, a cargo of personal belongings, in good condition are handed over to the agent Right Move 4 U (RM4U) under a contract signed in Californ… |
| 20-6 |
William Burke v. Progressive Gulf Insurance Company |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial insurance insurance-claim legal-manipulation maritime-jurisdiction maritime-law seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
This case involves a simple insurance claim to Progressive Gulf Insurance made by William Burke when his boat sank in January 2018. Progressive manipu… |
| 19-8832 |
Stefan Van Der End v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial maritime-law nationality sixth-amendment |
1. Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments are violated by the provision of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70504(a), precluding jur… |
| 19-8513 |
Edward Javier Catano Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-trafficking due-process extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-law maritime-drug-law maritime-law pinkerton-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. For purposes of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA"),
does due process require a nexus between the defendant and the United
States where… |
| 19-1248 |
Eli Dunn v. Bryce Hatch, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
|
admiralty admiralty-jurisdiction civil-rights commercial-fishermen commercial-fishing maritime maritime-law public-policy punitive-damages seamen-rights statutory-interpretation wage-and-hour wage-disputes wages |
1. Should punitive damages be available to commercial fishermen cheated on their wages?
2. Is there a conflict among federal courts of appeal, and wi… |
| 19-1250 |
Victor Allan Clark v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc., et al. |
Florida |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
|
45-usc-55 45-usc-56 forum-selection forum-selection-clause jones-act maritime-law negligence personal-injury seaman-employment seaman-employment-contract third-party-beneficiary |
I. Does the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 30104, 30509 (adopting by reference 45 U.S.C. §§ 55, 56) render void a foreign forum selection clause in a Seaman'… |
| 19-1146 |
Centaur, L.L.C. v. River Ventures, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split conceptual-approach contract-classification federal-maritime-law judicial-interpretation maritime-commerce maritime-law precedent spatial-approach |
In Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14 (2004), this Court mandated that a conceptual approach –not a spatial approach –be utilized to d… |
| 19-7484 |
Jose Candelario Perez-Cruz v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law mdlea pretrial-hearing stateless-vessel trial-procedure |
Whether the Court of Appeals clearly erred in upholding the District Court's conclusion that jurisdiction in a stateless vessel case under the MDLEA i… |
| 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… |
| 19-6546 |
Elmer Misael Garcia Ramirez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-authority define-and-punish-clause due-process high-seas international-law international-waters jurisdiction maritime-law nexus |
Whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction because neither the U.S. Constitution nor any theory of international law permits jurisdiction to be asser… |
| 19-6039 |
Camilo Andres Landazuri Vargas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
congress-powers-limits congressional-power criminal-law due-process fifth-amendment foreign-national international-law international-waters jurisdiction jurisdictional-element maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation united-states-constitution |
WHETHER THE PROSECUTION OF MR. VARGAS - AN
ECUADORIAN NATIONAL WITH NO TIES TO THE UNITED
STATES — FOR TRAFFICKING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN
INTERNATIO… |
| 19-5166 |
Henry Vazquez Valois v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
commerce-clause congressional-power congressional-powers criminal-law drug-trafficking due-process enumerated-powers extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-national international-law international-waters maritime-law |
Whether the prosecution of Mr. Vazquez Valois — a Colombian
national with no ties to the United States — for trafficking cocaine in
international wate… |
| 18-9426 |
Paul Duriso v. West Gulf Maritime Association, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cba civil-procedure civil-rights collective-bargaining due-process employee-rights grievance-process ila-constitution labor-law legal-jurisdiction maritime-law statute-of-limitations texas-civil-practice-and-remedies-code texas-code |
In the case of Rhonda Stelly vs. West Gulf Maritime et al, 4-17-cv-2392 and several related cases such as this case Paul Duriso vs. West Gulf Maritime… |
| 18-9381 |
Hubert Youte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-search civil-rights fourth-amendment living-quarters maritime-law reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vessel vessel-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion to enter and search the living quarters on a vessel docked at the border. |
| 18-9328 |
Diego Portocarrero Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process high-seas-offense jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing stateless-vessel |
1. Is the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act ("MDLEA") unconstitutional because no minimum contacts between the accused and the United States are requi… |
| 18-9263 |
Luis Felipe Valencia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process international-law jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-law minimum-contacts stateless-vessel vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Petitioner was onboard a boat in international waters in the Eastern Pacific Ocean when the United States Coast Guard ("USCG") detained him for cocain… |
| 18-1318 |
Marquette Transportation Company, L.L.C. v. Kelvin Dunn |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
|
comparative-fault emergency-drills emergency-procedures fitness-for-duty in-extremis-doctrine jones-act maritime-collision maritime-law primary-duty-doctrine seaman-standard-of-care |
This Petition involves an injury claim by a Jones Act captain and raises questions on fitness for duty and his ultimate responsibility to implement sa… |
| 18-1224 |
NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contract-relationships contractual-relationships federal-maritime-law maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner vessel-supplies |
Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-1211 |
NuStar Energy Services, Inc. v. ING Bank N.V., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
authorized-agent cimla commercial-instruments commercial-instruments-and-maritime-liens-act contract-law contractual-relationships maritime-law maritime-lien maritime-liens necessaries statutory-interpretation vessel-necessaries vessel-owner |
Whether a party that physically supplies a vessel with fuel or other necessaries possesses a statutory maritime lien where the vessel owner or its aut… |
| 18-1187 |
Mitchell Miorelli, et al. v. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ltd. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
|
admiralty-jurisdiction civil-procedure discovery discovery-limitations discovery-rules disputed-facts due-process equitable-tolling maritime-law material-fact material-facts motion-to-dismiss pre-answer-dismissal summary-judgment |
1. Whether Summary Judgment Was Proper Where the Respondent Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, LTD. Moved To Dismiss Before Filing An Answer, No There Were … |
| 18-8051 |
Yeison Valencia Torres v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split conflict-of-laws criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there … |
| 18-1017 |
Angelex, Ltd. v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
|
33-usc-1904 administrative-delay administrative-law apps-act-to-prevent-pollution-from-ships civil-procedure compensation-claim due-process government-liability maritime maritime-law marpol-treaty statutory-interpretation takings unreasonable-delay vessel-detention |
1. Whether the Court below erred by prematurely dismissing Angelex's case prior to trial and full presentation of Angelex's evidence; and
2. Whether … |
| 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… |
| 18-832 |
Ann Wilma Petersen v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
alvez-precedent american-export-lines-v-alvez general-maritime-law loss-of-consortium maritime-law miles-v-apex-marine miles-v-apex-marine-corp personal-injury spousal-damages townsend-v-jantran-inc |
Whether spouses of personal injury plaintiffs are entitled to recover loss of consortium damages under general maritime law in light of this Court's h… |
| 18-7000 |
Luis Rolando Bueno Jimenez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) circuit-split criminal-law drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law
Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minimum
senten… |
| 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 … |
| 18-632 |
Sherilyn J. LeRoux v. NCL (Bahamas), Ltd. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
comparative-negligence federal-circuits general-maritime-law maritime-law open-and-obvious recovery recovery-standard tort-liability uniformity |
Under the General Maritime Law of comparative negligence, should a finding of "open and obvious" act as a complete bar to recovery or merely serve as … |
| 18-565 |
CITGO Asphalt Refining Company, et al. v. Frescati Shipping Company, Ltd., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
circuit-split due-diligence guarantee guarantee-of-safety maritime-law safe-berth safe-berth-clause ship-safety voyage-charter |
Whether under federal maritime law a safe berth clause in a voyage charter contract is a guarantee of a ship's safety, as the Third Circuit below and … |
| 18-6482 |
Roger Alfred Anchundia-Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3553(f) criminal-law criminal-sentencing drug-enforcement mandatory-minimum maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-safety-valve united-states-v-mosquera-murillo |
Whether a criminal defendant convicted of violating the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.S.C. § 70501 et seq., and subject to a mandatory minim… |
| 18-266 |
The Dutra Group v. Christopher Batterton |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (18)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure general-maritime-duty jones-act maritime-law personal-injury punitive-damages seaman-rights seaworthiness seaworthy-vessel unseaworthiness vessel-seaworthiness |
Whether punitive damages may be awarded to a Jones Act seaman in a personal injury suit alleging a breach of the general maritime duty to provide a se… |
| 18-5702 |
Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The parties to a case cannot manufacture federal subject-matter jurisdiction by stipulation. Nonetheless, the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, 46 U.… |
| 18-91 |
Antoinette Pizzino v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd., dba Norwegian Cruise Line |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-notice common-law constructive-notice cruise-line cruise-lines dangerous-condition maritime-law maritime-negligence negligence negligence-standard notice notice-requirement premises-liability |
Whether, in cases where a defendant or its agent has created the dangerous condition that causes injury, a plaintiff in a maritime negligence case sho… |
| 18-5221 |
Aquilino Guizamano-Cortes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense due-process equal-protection maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law rational-basis safety-valve sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction |
The exclusion of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcemen Act (46 U.S.C. § 70503) from eligibility for safety valve violates equal protection, because there i… |
| 18-5046 |
Giezi Magno Zamora v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process eleventh-circuit evidence habeas-corpus international-law judicial-review maritime-law sentencing sentencing-reasonableness writ-of-certiorari |
In United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), United States v. Rita, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) and United States v. Gall, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), this Court … |