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09Jul

“Yet Now, Federated Along One Keel” – United States Supreme Court Resolves Fifth/Ninth Circuit Split, Unequivocally Rejects Punitive Damages For General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness Claims

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Yet now, federated along one keel… MOBY DICK, HERMAN MELVILLE, Chap. XXVII - In the wake of Justice Thomas’s landmark decision in Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend, American maritime jurisprudence was left with its “keeled hulls split at sea” due to...
By: Baker Donelson
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/yet-now-federated-along-one-keel-united-29363/

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