Vierling v. Celebrity Cruises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an entity that was “financially self-sufficient, generate[d] its own revenues, and pa[id] its own debts” was not an arm of the state
• holding that a shipowner was entitled to indemnity if the trier of fact found that the port authority breached its warranty of workmanlike performance and that the breach caused the shipowner’s injury
• noting that the extent of a wharfinger’s warranty of workmanlike service is “largely determined by the services undertaken by the wharfinger”
• considering as one fac- tor “what degree of control the state maintains over the entity”
• applying Ryan indemnity in a personal injury case involving a maritime contractor
• “Every contract involving the rendering of services includes the implied promise to perform those services with reasonable care, skill, and safety.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).