Legal Opinion
Alcoa Steamship Co. v. M/V Nordic Regent
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 31, 1978No. 1558, Docket 78-7054PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTimbers, Circuit Judge
(with whom
KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, FEINBERG, MANSFIELD, MULLIGAN and MES-KILL, Circuit Judges, concur):
We have before us for en bane reconsideration an appeal from a judgment entered in the Southern District of New York, William C. Conner, District Judge, 453 F.Supp. 10 (S.D.N.Y.1978), which conditionally dismissed an admiralty action on the ground of forum non conveniens.
The essential question presented is what is the proper standard for determining a motion to dismiss an admiralty action on the ground of forum non conveniens when the action has been brought by an American resident libelant in…
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