GUGLIANI v. SHIPPING CORP. OF INDIA, LTD.

No. 87-1475.

526 So.2d 769 (1988)

Rakesh GUGLIANI, Appellant, v. The SHIPPING CORPORATION OF INDIA, LTD., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Arnold Ginsberg, Joseph C. Martucci, Miami, for appellant.

Hayden and Milliken and William Barry Milliken and Domingo Rodriguez, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and NESBITT, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant shipowner, concededly an instrumentality of the government of India, on the ground that it was entitled to immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1602 (West Supp. 1988) et seq. We affirm.

The plaintiff is an Indian merchant marine cadet who was injured on the high seas 250 miles northeast of Miami when cargo suddenly shifted, allegedly...

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