Legal Opinion
Liaw Su Teng v. Skaarup Shipping Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 15, 1984No. 83-3452PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Foreign nationals injured by the collision on the high seas of two vessels flying the flags of different nations seek redress from the owners of both vessels in a United States district court. Absent compelling reasons, such a suit obviously ought not to be divided into separate suits against the owner of each vessel with each case then to be tried separately in the forums of different nations, for that sort of bifurcation creates not only the necessity of two separate trials to determine responsibility for a single event, but also the possibility of inconsistent…
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