Al-Habashy v. Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice

How courts have described this case

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• “Establishing negligence under general maritime law requires the plaintiff to demonstrate . . . injury sustained by the plaintiff.”
• rejecting res ipsa loquitur doctrine in maritime negligence claim because vessel owner took boat out for six to eight hours after repairs and prior to fire
• “[c]lausation under general maritime negligence law is similar to the common law which requires but for causation coupled with proximate or legal causation”
• shipowner “failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that Caldwell’s repairs actually and proximately caused the fire and sinking”
• res ipsa logquitur applies in admiralty and “allows negligence to be proved by circumstantial evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).