Smolnikar v. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Federal maritime law applies to actions arising from alleged torts ‘committed aboard a ship sailing in navigable waters.’”
• “Federal maritime law applies to actions arising from alleged torts ‘committed aboard a ship sailing in navigable waters.’”
• duty to warn extends to dangers the cruise line \knows or reasonably should have known\ but only insofar as those dangers are not apparent and obvious
• “There is no exception in the statute for claims based on events or omissions occurring in the midst of a voyage but at an offshore location or in the course of an offshore excursion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).