Waggon-Dixon v. Royal Caribbean Cruises

How courts have described this case

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

• “An unprovoked, sudden, and unusually savage assault by one seaman against another constitutes a breach of the owner’s duty to provide a seaworthy vessel.”
• \[T]he question of whether a vessel is seaworthy extends beyond the actual physical condition of the vessel.... The duty to provide a seaworthy vessel obliges the owner of a vessel to provide its seamen with the proper equipment to carry out their respective jobs.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).