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Supreme Court Declines to Expand Maritime Choice-of-Law ...

In Great Lakes Ins. SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC, the Supreme Court held that choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are ...

New U.S. Supreme Court decision recognizing enforceability of ...

The US Supreme Court held on February 21, 2024 that choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable as a matter of federal ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Choice-of-Law Provisions in Marine ...

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that choice-of-law clauses in marine insurance contracts are presumptively enforceable ...

Justices order vigorous enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in ...

, a maritime insurance case in which the Supreme Court called for ... Finally, Kavanaugh rejects the yacht owner's suggestion that “federal ...

United States Supreme Court Enforces Choice-of-Law Provision in ...

SCOTUS ruled that choice-of-law provisions are presumptively enforceable in maritime insurance contracts as a matter of federal maritime ...

22-500 Great Lakes Ins. SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co. (02/21/2024)

Finally, the Court rejects the suggestion to adopt the choice-of-law ap- proach set forth in §187(2)(b) of the Second Restatement of Conflict of.

SCOTUS Clarifies Choice of Law in Admiralty Litigation

The Supreme Court of the United States resolved the latter split in favor of applying federal common law on February 21, 2024.

MARINE INSURANCE LAW UPDATE: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds ...

Longstanding precedent establishes a federal maritime rule that choice-of-law provisions (like forum selection provisions) in maritime contracts ...

“Raiders of the Lost Ark”: SCOTUS Sides with Great Lakes ...

A battle between federal maritime law and state insurance rules was decided today by the highest court when the United States Supreme Court ...

Supreme Court of the United States

uniform federal common law rule governing choice-of- law provisions in maritime contracts. ... cases, federal courts refused to uphold choice-of- ...

U.S. Supreme Court Held that Choice-of-Law Clauses in Maritime ...

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

Justices Side With Insurers in Rare Fight Over Yacht Policy

“Choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable under federal maritime law, with narrow exceptions not applicable ...

Federal Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction Part 3: Territorial Scope

The Supreme Court has held that neither Congress, nor the states, nor U.S. courts can enlarge admiralty jurisdiction beyond its constitutional ...

The Continuing Decline of The Supreme Court in Admiralty

Admiralty and Maritime Law at the National Level and in the Fifth and Eleventh. Circuits, 40 TUL. MAR. L. J. 343, 392–93 (2016) (discussing the ...

After Chevron: A Sea Change for Maritime Sector - Holland & Knight

Holland & Knight announced the formation of its Chevron Deference Working Team in advance of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 28, 2024, Loper ...

Justices uphold federal maritime law's primacy for insurer in boat ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal law should prevail in a maritime contract dispute on Wednesday, siding ...

Jurisdiction: Admiralty and Maritime | Federal Judicial Center

The Supreme Court narrowed the application of admiralty rules and law beginning in 1972, when the Court established that a "maritime nexus" must exist for a ...

Lost at Sea: The Continuing Decline of the Supreme Court in Admiralty

Federal admiralty law should therefore be “normalized” and brought into conformity with the same principles of federalism and separation of ...

ArtIII.S2.C1.12.1 Overview of Admiralty and Maritime Jurisdiction

Under federal law, the district courts have jurisdiction over cases involving the seizure and forfeiture of a vessel for violating federal law. Id. §§ 1333(1), ...

The Supremacy of United States (Maritime) Law Revisited

modal jurisdiction choice of law issue: the Supreme Court should have simply limited the mixed contract doctrine to non-multi-modal con- tracts.36 This ...