· 7/24/1991
Nesselrotte v. Sullivan
Citations
- 939 F.2d 596
- 1991 U.S. App. LEXIS 16109
- 1991 WL 134475
How courts have described this case
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- in enacting the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, which provides for strict liability for damages that are the result of discharges, Congress did not intend to abrogate common-law principles of proximate cause to reach \remote and derivative\ consequences
- applying “substantial factor” requirement to maritime tort
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Judges: Fagg, Henley, Wollman
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