Pepper v. Plaisance

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• holding that plaintiff was precluded from recovering punitive damages on his negligence and unseaworthiness claims under the Jones Act because of the statute's pecuniary limitation
• granting summary judgment because “[i]t matters not that [defendant] may have only begrudgingly or reluctantly paid maintenance and cure, as long as it in fact paid”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).