Owens Ex Rel. SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. v. SeaRiver Maritime, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that when the primary purpose of a tankerman’s job is “get[ting] cargo on or off the barge,” he is not a seaman
• holding that work loading and unloading a cargo ship was not seamen’s work
• emphasizing that workers who primarily load and unload barges are generally speaking not seamen under the FLSA
• noting that the plaintiff did not move or moor the barge and only prepared it for navigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).