Auther Jones v. Spentonbush-Red Star Company

How courts have described this case

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• affirming denial of prejudgment interest due to plaintiffs undue delay of nearly three years from the date of his accident to the filing of his lawsuit
• “Imposing negligence per se, shifting the burden of proof and barring a finding of comparative negligence for an OSHA violation would all 'enlarge or diminish or affect in any other manner’ the liability of a maritime employer’’
• finding non-mandatory authorities “evidence of the standard of care, the violation of which may be accepted or rejected as proof of negligence by the trier of fact according to the sum total of all the evidence.”
• “In the absence of a per se rule, OSHA is simply evidence of the standard of care, the violation of which may be accepted or rejected as proof of negligence by the trier of fact according to the sum total of all the evidence.”

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