Matsushita Electric Corp. v. S. S. Aegis Spirit

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting the test “as contrary to the statute, commercially impracticable and unwise”
• no mutual understanding with respect to what constitutes COGSA package where carrier and shipper had no direct or indirect dealings
• “it is clear that there was not and, realistically, could not have been any mutual understanding between [the shipper and carrier] with respect to the COGSA package”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).