Federal Commerce & Navigation Co. v. the M/V Marathonian

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• noting that “[w]ere this Court now free to write upon a tabula rasa and not constrained by the weight of precedent, we would reject the [contract-based Robins Dry Dock rule] in favor of a negligence-causation-foreseeability analysis” such as that articulated in Kinsman II
• although preferring the Kinsman II approach, the court applies the Robins analysis because bound by precedent

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