P.A. v. Rorick

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• excluding federal court jurisdiction would “[lean] too heavily on general principles of contract law and [give] insufficient affect to the enactments of Congress governing bills of lading”
• such a clause puts a high hurdle in the way of enforcing liability and thus is an effective means for carriers to secure settlements lower than if cargo could sue in a convenient forum
• such a clause puts a high hurdle in the way of enforcing liability and thus is an effective means for carriers to secure settlements lower than if cargo could sue in a convenient forum
• choice-of-forum clause invalid under Carriage of Goods by Sea Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).