Maru Shipping Co. v. Burmeister & Wain American Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “[w]he[n] the federal law of the sea provides . . . no clear precedent . . ., [the court] may look to the prevailing law of the land as applied by the states.”
• holding that “[w]he[n] the federal law of the sea provides . . . no clear precedent . . ., [the court] may look to the prevailing law of the land as applied by the states.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).