admiralty-law

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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 Whether the Sunken Military Craft Act bars all admiralty salvage claims or only in rem claims directed at the res, and whether the party presentation …
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/ allisi…
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 Should Feres be extended to bar claims under statutes other than the Federal Tort Claims Act?
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 Whether the Fifth Amendment imposes the same restrictions on personal jurisdiction by federal courts as the Fourteenth Amendment imposes on state cour…
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 What is the standard for enforcing a choice of law clause in a maritime contract?
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 Whether state and county governments can violate constitutional rights by invoking admiralty/maritime law and denying a jury trial under the 7th Amend…
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 Whether a maritime terminal operator's schedule of rates, established in accordance with 46 U.S.C. § 40501 and approved by the Federal Maritime Commis…
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 Whether a seaman's wage contract that includes maintenance and cure entitles the prevailing party to attorney's fees
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 matter jurisdiction under its Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdictions to grant Appellee relief sought in the absence of maritim…
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-cruise-ship-passenger-ticket-fairly-communicated-pre-suit-notice-requirement
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 Whether a plaintiff claiming damage to a structure placed on navigable waters must show that its structure was permitted in order to maintain a compen…