Eric Wilson v. Maritime Overseas Corporation and Cambridge Tankers, Inc.

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• holding that subject matter jurisdiction was lacking over employee’s FMLA claim because employer did not have the requisite number of employees even though the parties contracted to incorporate FMLA’s terms and responsibilities into their employment relationship
• stating that since plaintiff bore the burden on essential function, summary judgment may nevertheless be appropriate
• holding that “a ship’s officer may not recover against his employer for negligence or unseaworthiness when there is no other cause of the officer’s injuries other than the officer’s breach of his consciously assumed duty to maintain safe conditions aboard the vessel”
• finding that driveway buffer zone at health care facilities 7 “permits ample alternative avenues of communication[] by placing no limit on speech or 8 expressive activity outside a narrow zone”
• affirming exclusion of expert witness testimony where, among other 5 things, “information contained in the supplemental report must have been available before the 6 missed deadline”
• further noting that the emphasis is upon giving the court “actual notice of the nature and grounds of the objection”

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