James R. Goan v. Billy B. Mills

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that “the federal and state courts ha[d] not reached consensus on how to apply” a particular principle of 612 MEDICAL MARIJUANA, INC. v. HORN Opinion of the Court general tort law
• balancing the “light burden on manufacturers” of providing a warning against the Court’s “special solicitude for the welfare of those who undertake to venture upon hazardous and unpredictable sea voyages” (quotations omitted)
• observ- ing that “the federal and state courts ha[d] not reached con- sensus on how to apply” a particular principle of general tort law
• “In formulating federal maritime law, the federal courts may examine, among other sources, judicial opin- ions, legislation, treatises, and scholarly writings”
• “[P]laintiffs must show [it] is more likely than not that the defendant's act was a substantial factor in bringing about the injury.”
• “A holding to the contrary would permit imposition of liability on the manufacturer of any product with which a worker had the briefest of encounters on a single occasion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).