Legal Opinion
Guiseppe Castorina v. Lykes Brothers Steamship Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1985No. 84-2047PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from a final judgment against a longshoreman who brought suit under the Longshoremen & Harbor Workers Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. § 905(b), to recover damages from an allegedly negligent shipowner raises two important questions of interpretation of that Act. The plaintiff was exposed to asbestos dust while offloading asbestos from the defendant’s vessels, and later contracted asbestosis. The defendant owned the vessels on which the asbestos was carried and conducted its own stevedoring operations. First, this court must decide whether the date of the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- United States v. United States Gypsum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Seas Shipping Co. v. SierackiSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Urie v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Scindia Steam Navigation Co. v. De Los SantosSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by58 opinions
- Kevin Scheuring v. Traylor Brothers, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007
- Drake v. Raymark Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1985
- Kathleen Russo, Wife Of/and Herbert L. Gay v. Barge 266 and Brown & Root U.S.A., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
- Gravatt v. City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Railco Multi-Construction Co. v. GardnerDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1989
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