Wallace v. NCL (Bahamas) Ltd.

Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

ADALBERTO JORDAN, District Judge.

After considering the arguments of counsel, the stipulations of the parties, and the evidence presented at the bench trial held in this case, I enter the following findings of fact and conclusions of law pursuant to Rule 52(a)(1) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

I. Findings of Fact

After one cruise ends and before another begins, a cruise ship must be cleaned. The late writer David Foster Wallace once described this process as “several battalions” of “stewards ... obliterating all evidence” of the previous cruise…