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Court makes potentially significant changes to safe berth warranties

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 20 2013

On May 16, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision potentially making significant changes to the nature of "safe

Supreme Court rules floating non-motorized home not a "vessel"

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2013

In a 7-2 case decided on January 15, 2013, the United States Supreme Court held in Lozman v. Riviera Beach that a floating non-motorized home docked

Coast guard permits installation of foreign-built LNG fuel tanks in Jones Act vessel

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 3 2012

U.S. law governing the U.S. coastwise trade (generally referred to as the “Jones Act”) restricts such trade to vessels “built in the United States,” which has a defined meaning in the law

Port sued for false claims in PL 480 program

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 23 2012

On October 19, 2012, the U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbua against Jacintoport International LLC in Texas under the False Claims Act

Collateral attack on coast guard vessel documentation decision dismissed

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2012

On October 17, 2012, Judge Lance M. Africk of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana dismissed a case filed against Surf Subsea, Inc. initially brought in state court in which plaintiffs alleged that the MV Surf Challenger was ineligible to be operated in the U.S. coastwise trade (the Jones Act trade

Bankruptcy court limits federal maritime jurisdiction over Shipping Act violations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 13 2012

On February 10, 2012, Judge Sean H. Lane of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling in a Chapter 15 bankruptcy proceeding where The Containership Company (TCC) is the debtor

Federal court knocks down challenge to EPA's nationwide discharge permit

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 25 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted incidental vessel discharges in U.S. waters for more than 30 years under the Clean Water Act until 2009

U.S. district court upholds Coast Guard’s Matson foreign rebuild determinations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2009

On December 4, 2009, a federal district court in Virginia entered judgment in favor of the U.S. Coast Guard and Matson Navigation Company, Inc. in a long-running vessel foreign rebuild case

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