O'HARA v. CELEBRITY CRUISES, INC.

Nos. 96 Civ. 2079 (JSR), 96 Civ. 5763 (JSR).

979 F.Supp. 254 (1997)

Elizabeth O'HARA, Plaintiff, v. CELEBRITY CRUISES, INC., Meridian Cruise Services, a division of Celebrity Catering Services Partnership, Fourth Transoceanic Shipping Company, Ltd and Arturo Campignoti, Defendants. Kimberly ROSSI (Nee: DeCicco), Plaintiff, v. CELEBRITY CRUISES, INC., Meridian Cruise Services, and Fourth Transoceanic Shipping Company, Ltd., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

October 13, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Donovan, James R. Hatter, Hatter, Donovan & McFaul, Mineola, NY, for Elizabeth O'Hara.

Gregory O'Neill, William Clair, Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City, for Celebrity Cruises, Inc., Meridian Cruise Services, Fourth Transoceanic Shipping Co., Ltd., Arturo Campignoti.

Mangines and Magines, Thomas E. Mangines, Daniel Kryzanski, Fairfield, CT, for Kimberly Rossi.


OPINION

RAKOFF, District Judge.

In confronting Scylla and Charybdis, Ulysses was not the first shipowner to face the vicissitudes of overlapping jurisdictions, nor, as these cases illustrate, was he the last. Specifically, the instant cases involve, inter alia, claims under both New York State and federal maritime law that the alleged negligence of the defendant ship owners and operators, which...

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