Lake Charles Stevedores, Inc. v. Professor Vladimir Popov Mv, in Rem

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• holding that a stevedore who was hired not by the charterer but by a company who contracted with the charterer did not acquire a maritime lien
• holding that the district court’s findings of fact must be upheld unless clearly erroneous
• explaining that the “nature of the relationship between each pair of entities” determines whether a party provides necessaries “on the order” of the vessel
• explaining that the \nature of the relationship between each pair of entities\ determines whether a party provides necessaries \on the order\ of the vessel
• noting that a supplier who has actual knowledge of a no-lien clause will not be entitled to a maritime lien
• affirming denial of maritime lien on theory of “apparent authority” because shipowner did not “undert[ake] actions that caused [plaintiffs] reasonably to believe that [third-party] was its agent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).