Chevron USA, Inc. v. Aker Maritime, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[w]hen a plaintiff acts reasonably to discover the cause of a problem, the prescriptive period [does] not begin to run until [he has] a reasonable basis to pursue a claim against a specific defendant” (quotations omitted)
• “[Wjhen a plaintiff suspects something is wrong, he must seek out those whom he believes may be responsible for the specific injury.”
• “If the boxes [with the defendant’s labels] were the only evidence against Lone Star, the cases would indicate a different decision.”
• damage to “floating spar,” an oil 10 production facility, caused by defective replacement bolts was not economic loss, but property loss
• Specific defendant rule applied because “no one knew the cause [of broken bolts]. It could have been continued overtorquing, faulty manufacture, or improper bolt substitution. Each problem pointed to a different defendant.”
• attorneys’ fees are unavailable under the Liability Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).