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VICTORY CARRIERS, INC. v. LAW

No. 70-54.

404 U.S. 202 (1971)

VICTORY CARRIERS, INC., ET AL. v. LAW.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 13, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Boyd Reeves argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were George F. Wood and T. K. Jackson, Jr.

Ross Diamond, Jr., argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was J. Cecil Gardner.

E. D. Vickery, Dennis Lindsay, Francis A. Scanlan, and J. Stewart Harrison filed a brief for the National Maritime Compensation Committee as amicus curiae urging reversal.

David B. Kaplan filed a brief for the American Trial Lawyers Association as amicus curiae urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question presented here is whether state law or federal maritime law governs the suit of a longshoreman injured on a pier while driving a forklift truck which was moving cargo that would ultimately be loaded aboard ship.

The facts are undisputed. When the accident happened, respondent Bill Law, a longshoreman employed by Gulf Stevedore Corp. in Mobile, Alabama...

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