John Horton v. Maersk Line, Limited
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
The plaintiff in this case, a longshoreman, suffered serious injuries when a twist-lock fell onto his neck. He sued the owner of the ship on which he was working and the owner of the containers being loaded onto the ship.
He now appeals two orders from the district court granting summary judgment to these two defendants.
I. BACKGROUND
On the morning of March 18, 2011, plaintiff-appellant John Horton (“Plaintiff’), a longshoreman, was working aboard the MjV Sealand Champion when a crane operator, placing a shipping container onto a stack of other shipping containers, used sufficient force to…
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