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Significant Narrowing of Rule B Attachments (November 2009)
Supreme Court Declares Punitive Damages Available for Maintenance and Cure Claim (September 2009)
Choice-of-Law Clauses in Marine Cargo Insurance Policy (January 2009)
Consistent Dispute Resolute Clauses Needed in Maritime Contracts (July 2008)
Spill Fund Reimbursement Allowed because of Willful Misconduct (January 2008)
Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split on Forum Non Conveniens (August 2007)
Room for Debate on Proximate Cause versus Relaxed Standard of Causation in a Jones Act Context (February 2007)
OCSLA Trumps Admiralty Jurisdiction (August 2006)
A New Arrow in the Jones Act Employer's Quiver (February 2006)
ADA Applies to Foreign-Flag Cruise Ships—In Theory (August 2005)
Taking Some Teeth Out of the Louisiana Oilfield Indemnity Statute (May 2005)
Supreme Court Rules a Dredge Is a Jones Act Vessel (March 2005)
Enforcement of Federal Law on Foreign-Flagged Ships in U.S. Waters (November 2004)
Circuit Split Widens over Exculpatory Clauses in Maritime Contracts (February 2004)
Jones Act Status Issue Once Again Wastes Resources of All (September 2003)
A Lien Is a Lien Is a Lien, but a Maritime Lien Is Not (June 2003)
Maritime Pollution: Mixing OPA and CERCLA Makes for Foul Waters (January 2003)
OSHA Takes a Dip in the Sea: Chao v Mallard Bay Drilling, Inc. (August 2002)
The Difficulty and Confusion Surrounding Removing Maritime Cases to Federal Court (June 2002)
To Remove or Not To Remove, That Is the Question (February 2002)
In Rem Admiralty Jurisdiction and the Supplemental Rules (November 2001)
Admiralty Jurisdiction: A Challenge for Even the Seasoned Practitioner (May 2001)
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Maritime Law

Significant Narrowing of Rule B Attachments

Supreme Court Declares Punitive Damages Available for Maintenance and Cure Claim

Choice-of-Law Clauses in Marine Cargo Insurance Policy

Consistent Dispute Resolute Clauses Needed in Maritime Contracts

Spill Fund Reimbursement Allowed because of Willful Misconduct

Supreme Court Resolves Circuit Split on Forum Non Conveniens

Room for Debate on Proximate Cause versus Relaxed Standard of Causation in a Jones Act Context

OCSLA Trumps Admiralty Jurisdiction

A New Arrow in the Jones Act Employer's Quiver

ADA Applies to Foreign-Flag Cruise Ships—In Theory

Taking Some Teeth Out of the Louisiana Oilfield Indemnity Statute

Supreme Court Rules a Dredge Is a Jones Act Vessel

Enforcement of Federal Law on Foreign-Flagged Ships in U.S. Waters

Circuit Split Widens over Exculpatory Clauses in Maritime Contracts

Jones Act Status Issue Once Again Wastes Resources of All

A Lien Is a Lien Is a Lien, but a Maritime Lien Is Not

Maritime Pollution: Mixing OPA and CERCLA Makes for Foul Waters

OSHA Takes a Dip in the Sea: Chao v Mallard Bay Drilling, Inc.

The Difficulty and Confusion Surrounding Removing Maritime Cases to Federal Court

To Remove or Not To Remove, That Is the Question

In Rem Admiralty Jurisdiction and the Supplemental Rules

Admiralty Jurisdiction: A Challenge for Even the Seasoned Practitioner


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