Harilaos Kukias v. Chandris Lines, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “this first factor is of little significance.”
• recognizing the possibility that ship operator could be Jones Act employer and that ship owner could be Jones Act employer under borrowed servant principles but not explicitly stating that a seaman can have more than one employer at the same time under the Jones Act
• “The post-Rhoditis decisions continue to consider the full range of factors relevant to a choice-of-law determination, and, in appropriate cases, have declined to apply the Jones Act despite a finding that the shipowner had substantial domestic contacts.”
• allegiance of corporations determined by domiciliaries of parent corporations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).