Legal Opinion
Morris v. Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 17, 1991PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Abrams J.
On December 22, 1981, a fire aboard the Bay State, a training vessel used by the Massachusetts Maritime Academy (academy), killed Cadet Rodney C. Morris and severely injured Cadet Stephen A. Bianco. Bianco and Morris’s estate brought actions in the Superior Court against the Academy, its board of trustees, the Board of Regents of Higher Education, and the Commonwealth. 4 They allege (1) violation of the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688 (1982 & Supp. III 1985); (2) negligence, gross negligence and unseaworthiness under general admiralty law, and (3) negligence and wrongful death as to…
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