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"Whether a contract is maritime bears upon numerous substantive legal rights of the parties," writes Blank Rome's Keith Letourneau. In the Fifth Circuit, for the longest time, deciding whether a ...

How should a federal court decide whether to enforce a choice-of-law provision? That's the question at the heart of Great Lakes Insurance v. Raiders Retreat Realty, a maritime coverage dispute that ...

On February 21, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a unanimous opinion delivered by Justice Kavanaugh, held that choice-of-law clauses in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable ...

The case will decide for the first time whether countries have a legal obligation to cut their greenhouse gas pollution. An international court that governs maritime law is expected to issue a ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Supreme Court on Monday morning added a maritime law case to its docket for the 2023-24 term and invited the federal ...

On July 7, 2021, U.S. District Court Judge Eduardo C. Robreno, who oversees the asbestos multi district litigation (MDL 875) in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, applied a new standard set forth ...

BRISTOL — There is a new journal in town, a premier scholarly publication dedicated to all aspects of admiralty and maritime law in the United States. Roger Williams University School of Law is the ...

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