BARLOW v. LIBERTY MARITIME CORP.

Docket No. 13-0254-cv.

746 F.3d 518 (2014)

George H. BARLOW, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LIBERTY MARITIME CORP., Liberty Star Shipping Corp., Liberty Sun Corp., Liberty Shipping Group L.P., Liberty Shipping Group LLC, in personam, The M/V Liberty Sun, Her Engines, Tackle and Equipment, in rem., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 4, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. Mellusi , Tabak Mellusi & Shisha LLP, New York, N.Y. ( James Michael Maloney , Port Washington, N.Y. on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Elizabeth A. McCoy , ( Gregory W. O'Neill , Thomas M. Rittweger , on the brief), Hill, Betts, & Nash, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: POOLER, RAGGI, AND WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

George Barlow started going to sea as a deck hand in 1974. He was twenty-three. In 1986, after working aboard ships for more than a decade, and without ever having attended college, he passed the merchant marine officer's exam, licensing him to serve as an officer aboard U.S. flagged cargo vessels. In 1992 he received his master's license, the merchant marine equivalent of a captain's qualification. Now retired, Barlow never actually took command...

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