Legal Opinion
Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 31, 2000No. Nos. 99-1487, 00-1090PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In a case reminiscent of Coleridge’s storied seafarer, who was doomed to tell the same tale over and over again, see Samuel T. Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Manner (1798), plaintiff-appellant Willard Stewart invites us to reexamine, narrow, or distinguish our holding in DiGiovanni v. Traylor Bros., Inc., 959 F.2d 1119 (1st Cir.1992) (en banc), and declare his floating work platform a dredge engaged in the excavation of a tunnel in the Boston Harbor to be a “vessel in navigation” as that term is used in the jurisprudence of the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. app. § 688. We conclude…
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