Borden v. Amoco Coastwise Trading Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing a common-law tort of retaliatory discharge where a seaman was terminated for refusing to carry out an assignment that would have endangered lives
• distinguishing regulatory concerns from those raised by safety risks to crew and public harm from risk of pollution, “The public policy implicated in the case at bar is much stronger than that in Feemster.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).