MITSUI SUMITOMO INS. CO. v. EVERGREEN MARINE CORP.

Docket No. 08-5184-cv.

621 F.3d 215 (2010)

MITSUI SUMITOMO INSURANCE CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EVERGREEN MARINE CORP., Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellant, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 22, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph De May, Jr . ( Paul M. Keane , on the brief), Cichanowicz, Callan, Keane, Vengrow & Textor, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellant Evergreen Marine Corp.

Barry N. Gutterman , Barry N. Gutterman & Associates, P.C., New York, NY, for Appellant Union Pacific Railroad Co.

David L. Mazaroli , New York, NY, for Appellee Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.

Before: B.D. PARKER, WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This is another "maritime case about a train wreck." Norfolk S. Ry. Co. v. Kirby, 543 U.S. 14, 18, 125 S.Ct. 385, 160 L.Ed.2d 283 (2004). We are again asked which federal statutory scheme governs the extent of the parties' liability: the Carmack Amendment, 49 U.S.C. § 11706, which imposes something akin to strict liability on shippers; or the Carriage of Goods and Sea Act ("COGSA"), 46 U.S.C. § 30701...

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