CEH, Inc. v. FV "Seafarer" (ON 675048)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, Chief Judge.

This matter is now before the Court on defendants’ appeal from the Memorandum and Order of United States Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lovegreen granting plaintiffs’ Motion to Compel response to their interrogatories. In his Memorandum and Order dated May 13, 1993, Magistrate Judge Lovegreen held that plaintiffs have a claim under general maritime law for punitive damages based upon allegations of willful, reckless and malicious misconduct of the individual defendants, and that plaintiffs need not establish a prima facie claim for punitive damages prior…