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Goett Vs. Union Carbide Corp.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 18, 1960

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  1. Western Fuel Co. Vs. Garcia US Supreme Court · Dec 05, 1921
  2. Levinson Vs. Deupree US Supreme Court · Jun 01, 1953
  3. The Tungus Vs. Skovgaard US Supreme Court · Feb 24, 1959
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  4. Southern Pacific Co. Vs. Jensen US Supreme Court · May 21, 1917
  5. Goett v. Union
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  6. Carbide Corp. - 361 U.S. 340 (1960) U.S. Supreme Court Goett v. Union
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  7. Carbide Corp., 361 U.S. 340 (1960) Goett v. Union
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  8. U.S. 923. This case was decided in the lower courts before the decision of this Court in The Tungus v. Skovgaard
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  9. to be applied to maritime torts within the territorial jurisdictions of the States in wrongful death cases. See Hess v. United
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  10. Act incorporates this standard of the general maritime law in death actions involving maritime torts. Cf. Barr v. Matteo
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  11. For examples of the general maritime law's concept of negligence, see Kermarec v. Compagnie
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  12. Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn
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  13. DOUGLAS, and MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN join this opinion, but solely under compulsion of the Court's ruling in The Tungus v. Skovgaard
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  14. as in The Tungus, and is not the measure of recovery when it militates against the defendant, as in Hess v. United
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  15. of it has engendered among its original subscribers. See the various separate opinions in this case and in Hess v. United
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  16. of action did not rest upon state substantive law, which, in maritime wrongful death actions, controls, The Tungus v. Skovgaard
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  17. U. S. 588 , if, as I expressed in my dissenting opinion in Hess v. United
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  18. one. The Court does not suggest that the limits of this discretion were exceeded in this instance. Cf. Barr v. Matteo
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  19. Virginia Wrongful Death statute, and properly decided it on that basis. The Court's opinion says that The Tungus v. Skovgaard
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  20. of exclusive admiralty jurisdiction, and are to be measured by the standards of the general maritime law, Kermarec v. Compagnie
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  21. of the general maritime law as to interfere with its proper nationwide harmony and uniformity, Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen
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  22. and completely out of respondent's control -- points we thoroughly explored and decided only the other day. West v. United
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  23. in The Tungus v. Skovgaard
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  24. in accord with the principles confirmed by this Court last Term in The Tungus. In Continental Casualty Co. v. The
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  25. Contrast Hess v. United
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  26. Only last month, we unanimously held that this view of the scope of unseaworthiness liability is correct. West v. United
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  27. The law took a different turn with respect to state workmen's compensation laws. See Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen
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  28. Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart
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  29. Standard Dredging Co. v. Murphy
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  30. U. S. 306 , 319 U. S. 309 . Cf. Davis v. Department
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  31. Hahn v. Ross
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  32. Turner v. Wilson
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  33. Halecki v. United
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  34. Lee v. Pure
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  35. U.S. Supreme Court Goett v. Union
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  36. See Hess v. United
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  37. Cf. Barr v. Matteo
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  38. Kermarec v. Compagnie
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  39. Hess v. United
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  40. West v. United
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  41. The Tungus. In Continental Casualty Co. v. The
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  42. See Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen
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  43. Cf. Davis v. Department
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  44. Turner v. Wilson
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