Mahaveer Singh v. Carnival Corporation

At bottom, this appeal is about whether the district court erred by compelling arbitration of claims by Mahaveer Singh, a seaman, against his employer, Carnival Corporation. We hold that the district court did not err.

Singh, a citizen of India, worked for Carnival Corporation, a Panama corporation, as a crewmember aboard its Panamanian flagged cruise ship, the Dream. On May 30, 2012, while participating in a lifeboat drill, the wire rope used to hoist Singh’s lifeboat to the cruise ship suddenly parted, plunging Singh and several other crewmembers sixty-five feet to the sea below. Singh’s…