No. 23-1246
Shell Offshore Inc. v. Palfinger Marine USA, Inc.
Tags: contract-law maritime-commerce maritime-law outer-continental-shelf platform-operations procedural-history statutory-history tort tort-law
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Latest Conference:
2024-09-30
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualifies as 'maritime commerce' triggering maritime law, when this Court has held such facilities 'were not even suggestive of maritime affairs'
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
QUESTION PRESENTED Can oil and gas exploration from a fixed platform on the Outer Continental Shelf qualify as “maritime commerce,” triggering the application of maritime law to contracts performed on the platform, when this Court has held in a tort context that such facilities “were not even suggestive of maritime affairs”? (i)
Docket Entries
2024-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2024-09-26
Reply of petitioner Shell Offshore Inc. filed. (Distributed)
2024-07-17
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
2024-06-27
Brief of Palfinger Marine USA, Inc., in opposition submitted.
2024-06-27
Brief of respondent Palfinger Marine USA, Inc., in opposition filed.
2024-06-27
Brief of respondent Palfinger Marine USA, Inc. in opposition filed.
2024-05-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 27, 2024)
Attorneys
Palfinger Marine USA, Inc.,
Joseph L. McReynolds — Deutsch, Kerrigan, L.L.P., Respondent
Joseph L. McReynolds — Deutsch, Kerrigan, L.L.P., Respondent
Shell Offshore Inc.
Kathryn Zainey Gonski — Liskow & Lewis, Petitioner
Kathryn Zainey Gonski — Liskow & Lewis, Petitioner