Legal Opinion
City of Milwaukee v. Cement Division, National Gypsum Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 12, 1995No. 94-788PublishedCited by 268 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
This is an admiralty case in which the plaintiff’s loss was primarily attributable to its own negligence. The question presented is whether that fact, together with the existence of a genuine dispute over liability, justified the District Court’s departure from the general rule that prejudgment interest should be awarded in maritime collision cases.
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Respondents are the owner and the insurers of the E. M. Ford, a ship that sank in Milwaukee’s outer harbor on Christmas Eve 1979. At the time of this disaster, the Ford was berthed in a slip owned by the city of Milwaukee (City). In the course…
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