Jon Heise v. The Fishing Company of Alaska, Inc., a Washington Corporation Alaskan Ranger, Her Engines, Tackle, Gear, Equipment, and Appurtenances

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• holding that a “land-based maritime worker” did not become a “seaman” even when temporarily assigned to work aboard a ship
• concluding that temporary laborer who was only aboard the vessel for duration of repairs and maintenance was land-based, and thus did not work at sea.
• noting that the statement in Eagle-Picher that the 1984 amendment barred dual-capacity suits was incorrect dicta
• finding that temporary repair and maintenance worker who did not sign ship’s articles and did not sail with vessel was not a seaman
• holding plaintiff who engaged in 24 repair work aboard vessel moored in the water was merely a land-based worker and thus “was 25 not a seaman entitled to the remedies of the Jones Act,” despite his plans to join the vessel’s 26 crew when it would later leave port
• “The fact that [plaintiff] might be hired to work on the ship ... does not change his land-based status at the time the injury occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).