Cook v. Crazy Boat of Key West, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that § 183c did not apply to void the liability-limiting provision because the vessel owned “did not travel between ports of the United States but rather left from and returned to the same port”
• “State laws requiring specific reference to the releasee’s negligence therefore conflict with federal law and may not be applied in cases involving federal maritime law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).