Merchant Marine Miscellaneous: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First-[second] Session ....

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Σελίδα 242 - That any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action for damages at law, with the right of trial by jury, and in such action all statutes of the United States modifying or extending the common-law right or remedy in cases of personal injury to railway employees shall apply...
Σελίδα 189 - ... citizen of the United States, or transfer or place under foreign registry or flag, any vessel or any interest therein owned in whole or in part by a citizen of the United States...
Σελίδα 300 - Guard is operating and the Secretary of Commerce, with respect to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has jurisdiction over such service shall approve any deferment of service as a commissioned officer.
Σελίδα 201 - States for maintenance and cure or for damages for the injury or death of a person who was not a citizen or permanent resident alien of the United States at the time of the incident giving rise to the action if the incident occurred...
Σελίδα 189 - Except as provided in section 1181 of this title, it shall be unlawful, without the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, to sell, mortgage, lease, charter, deliver, or in any manner transfer, to any person not a citizen of the United States...
Σελίδα 214 - Cir.)], where it was stated: [T]here is an evidentiary basis for a Jones Act case to go to the jury: (1) if there is evidence that the injured workman was assigned permanently to a vessel (including special purpose structures not usually employed as a means of transport by water but designed to float on water...
Σελίδα 8 - Association (BSA) in violation of section 15 of the Shipping Act for failure to obtain approval of concerted activities relating to the allocation of stevedoring gangs at the port of Boston, and to certain recall rights. Again, relying on the Supreme Court's decision in Volkswagen, the Commission found that it had jurisdiction over the two agreements among employer members of BSA regardless of the fact that the agreement relating to recall rights was subsequently incorporated into a collective bargaining...
Σελίδα 207 - ... was well warned that in the absence of more definite directions than are contained in the Jones Act it would be applied by the courts to foreign events, foreign ships and foreign seamen only in accordance with the usual doctrine and practices of maritime law.
Σελίδα 200 - To amend section 20 of the Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1185; 46 USC 688), to provide that actions may not be maintained under such section or under any other maritime laws of the United States for damages incurred by foreign persons or such persons...
Σελίδα 207 - ... employer" for Jones Act purposes: (1) the place of the wrongful act; (2) the law of the flag; (3) the allegiance or domicile of the injured seaman; (4) allegiance of the defendant shipowner; (5) the place where the contract of employment was made ; (6) the inaccessibility of a foreign forum; and (7) the law of the forum.

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