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American Export Lines, Inc. Vs. Alvez

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 12, 1980

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  1. Michigan Central R. Co. Vs. Vreeland US Supreme Court · Jan 20, 1913
  2. Mobil Oil Corp. Vs. Higginbotham US Supreme Court · Jun 05, 1978
  3. international Stevedoring Co. Vs. Haverty US Supreme Court · Oct 18, 1926
  4. Orr Vs. Orr US Supreme Court · Mar 05, 1979
  5. U.S. 274 (1980) U.S. Supreme Court American Export Lines, Inc. v. Alvez
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  6. U.S. 274 (1980) American Export Lines, Inc. v. Alvez
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  7. Court reversed and granted the motion to amend, reasoning that the case was controlled by Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  8. waters to maintain an action for damages for the loss of her husband's society. Although Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  9. maritime law. Pp. 446 U. S. 279 -286. MR. JUSTICE POWELL, while believing that Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  10. opinion, in which MR. JUSTICE WHITE, MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN, and MR. JUSTICE STEVENS joined. Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  11. U. S. 573 (1974), held that, under the nonstatutory maritime wrongful death action fashioned by Moragne v. States
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  12. as a plaintiff for loss of society was denied by the New York Supreme Court, Special Term, on the authority of Igneri v. Cie
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  13. See Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn
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  14. Radio Station WOW v. Johnson
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  15. Gillespie v. United
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  16. States Steel Corp., 379 U. S. 148 , 379 U. S. 153 (1964). III In Igneri v. Cie
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  17. Savage v. New
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  18. F. 778, 781 (CA2 1911) (adopting opinion of Hough, District Judge) (dictum), with New York & Long Branch Steamboat Co. v. Johnson
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  19. Michigan Central R. Co. v. Vreeland
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  20. U. S. 59 (1913). Too, it was far from evident that the rule of Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki
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  21. the legal setting within which we confront a claim for loss of society due to personal injury. In 1970, Moragne v. States
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  22. nonstatutory, cause of action, and its contours were further shaped some four years later by Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  23. But general federal maritime law is a source of relief for a longshoreman's personal injury, Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn
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  24. Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham
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  25. Moragne v. States
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  26. Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  27. To be sure, Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham
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  28. our sometime treatment of longshoremen as pseudo-seamen for certain Jones Act purposes, International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty
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  29. Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki
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  30. Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn
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  31. et seq., which was incorporated into the Jones Act, see, e.g., Ivy v. Security
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  32. present juncture are currently prevailing views about compensation for loss of society. Cf. Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  33. same relief is due the wife who suffers a comparable loss because of wounds suffered by her husband, see, e.g., Duncan v. General
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  34. Orr v. Orr
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  35. Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  36. Gaudet, one Federal Court of Appeals has expressly aligned itself with the Igneri rule, Christofferson v. Halliburton
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  37. F.2d 1174 (1976), and a number of state and federal district courts have divided on the issue, compare, e.g., Pesce v. Summa
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  38. Corp., 54 Cal.App.3d 86, 126 Cal.Rptr. 451 (1975), and Giglio v. Farrell
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  39. Lines, Inc., 424 F.Supp. 927 (SDNY 1977), appeal denied, No. 77-8014 (CA2, Feb. 17, 1977), with Davidson v. Schlussel
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  40. Reederei KG, 295 So.2d 700 (Fla.App. 1974), and Westcott v. McAllister
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  41. however, need not preclude us from considering the final determination as to Mrs. Alvez' claim. Cf. Gillespie v. United
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  42. U.S. at 414 U. S. 591 -592. In Christofferson v. Halliburton
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  43. et seq. See Swanson v. Marra
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  44. LHWCA, longshoremen retained additional rights based upon the warranty of seaworthiness. See Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki
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  45. Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet
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  46. Swartz v. United
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  47. Schreiner v. Fruit
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  48. Glendale v. Bradshaw
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  49. Missouri Pacific Transp. Co. v. Miller
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  50. Rodriguez v. Bethlehem
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