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Chandris, Inc. Vs. Latsis

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 14, 1995

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  1. Jamison Vs. Encarnacion US Supreme Court · May 26, 1930
  2. Berkemer Vs. Mccarty US Supreme Court · Jul 02, 1984
  3. U.S. 347 (1995) October Term, 1994 Syllabus Chandris, Inc., Et Al. V. Latsis
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  4. required for seaman status under the Jones Act, McDermott Int'l, Inc. v. Wilander
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  5. Swanson v. Marra
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  6. s mission, would be a seaman for injuries incurred during that voyage-conflicts with this status-based inquiry. Desper v. Starved
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  7. Rock Ferry Co., 342 U. S. 187 , 190, and Grimes v. Raymond
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  8. to the vessel or performance of a substantial part of his work on the vessel), which was derived from Offshore Co. v. Robison
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  9. see also Cortes v. Baltimore
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  10. see, e. g., Berkemer v. McCarty
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  11. Taylor v. Freeland
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  12. Harden v. Gordon
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  13. U. S., at 354 (quoting Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki
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  14. term to have its established meaning under the general maritime law at the time the Jones Act was enacted. See Warner v. Goltra
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  15. Id., at 157. Similarly, in Norton v. Warner
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  16. Brown v. ITT
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  17. Johnson v. John
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  18. Our early Jones Act decisions had not recognized this fundamental distinction. In International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty
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  19. ibid. (citing Atlantic Transport Co. of W Va. v. Imbrovek
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  20. that land-based maritime workers should not be entitled to the seamen's traditional remedies. Our decision in Swanson v. Marra
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  21. See also South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett
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  22. they are injured in the service of a vessel, regardless of whether the injury occurs on or off the ship. In O'Donnell v. Great
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  23. U. S., at 7-8. See also Braen v. Pfeifer
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  24. a). Thus, in Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Perini
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  25. of the Hudson River, id., at 300, n. 4, could be compensated under the LHWCA, id., at 324. See also Parker v. Motor
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  26. a seaman's work at the time of the injury. Seaman status is not coextensive with seamen's risks. See, e. g., Easley v. Southern
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  27. O'Donnell, supra, at 42-43. Desper v. Starved
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  28. at the time of injury. Similarly, despite Justice Harlan's suggestion in dissent that the Court's decision in Grimes v. Raymond
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  29. cases which emphasized that the question of seaman status is normally for the factfinder to decide, see, e. g., Senko v. LaCrosse
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  30. status as a member of the vessel' for it is seamen, not others who may work on 363 the vessel (Swanson v. Marra
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  31. or arbitrary as to permit a worker to walk into and out of coverage in the course of his regular duties.''' Barrett v. Chevron
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  32. U. S. A., Inc., 781 F.2d 1067 , 1075 (CA5 1986) (en bane) (quoting Longmire v. Sea
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  33. Jones Act coverage and other remedies depending on the activity in which the worker was engaged while injured. Reeves v. Mobile
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  34. employee must work only on board a vessel to qualify as a seaman under the Jones Act. In Southwest Marine, Inc. v. Gizoni
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  35. for the First Circuit was apparently the first to develop a generally applicable test for seaman status. In Carumbo v. Cape
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  36. Act, courts accepted the Carumbo formulation of master or member of a crew in the Jones Act context. See Boyd v. Ford
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  37. Estate of Wenzel v. Seaward
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  38. Whittington v. Sewer
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  39. Griffith v. Wheeling
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  40. McKie v. Diamond
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  41. in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which has a substantial Jones Act caseload, in the wake of Offshore Co. v. Robison
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  42. of vessels, a finite group of vessels under common ownership or control. Braniff v. Jackson
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  43. Bertrand v. International
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  44. Miller v. Patton-Tully
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  45. Caruso v. Sterling
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  46. Bennett v. Perini
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  47. in the Fifth Circuit's Jones Act jurisprudence added a strictly temporal gloss to the Jones Act inquiry. Under Barrett v. Chevron
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  48. to find seaman status where the employee spent less than 30 percent of his time aboard ship. See, e. g., Palmer v. Fayard
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  49. Lormand v. Superior
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  50. cf. Leonard v. Dixie
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