Morris v. Massachusetts Maritime Academy

How courts have described this case

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• declining to accept defendants’ argument that Legislature was required to make specific mention of admiralty claims in order to bring them within ambit of Act
• “The [governmental liability] limitation is contained in the same sentence in which sovereign immunity is waived.... The cap is one term of the waiver.”
• even if facts undisputed, question of agency not solely question of law when conflicting inferences may lead to different but reasonable conclusions
• admiralty claims were well known under statutory and common law; Act merely expanded such claims to public employers in same manner as liability imposed on private individuals
• States retain sovereign immunity unless Congress explicitly abrogates State sovereign immunity
• both discussing these factors in the context of a Jones Act claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).