The Cargo Letter

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Section A: Section: Trade, Financial & Inland News|
Section B: FF World Air News |
Section C: FF World Ocean News | Section D: FF in Cyberspace |
Section E: The Forwarder Broker World


OUR "E" Section: The Forwarder Broker World



New U.S. Transport Related Legal Cases

New U.S. Transport Related Legal Cases

Trinity Marine v. OSHRC
5th Circuit Court of Appeals
Dec. 5, 2001
Government Regulation: the U.S. Secretary of Labor's interpretation of OSHA regulation 29 C.F.R. § 1915.132(d) was unreasonable as applied to the Shipyard's electric cable repairs and the Shipyard did not have fair notice that its use of wood-framed plug-in boxes violated 29 C.F.R. § 1910.305(e), thus the penalties assessed against the Shipyard on those bases, and following an investigation after the electrocution death of an employee, must be set aside.
www.admiraltylawguide.com/circt/5thtrinitymarine2.html

Deweert v. Stevedoring Services
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Nov. 29, 2001
Longshore & Harbor Workers' Act: the ALJ calculated Petitioner's wage earning capacity by averaging his actual wages from the date of injury to the present & concluded that the resulting figure was higher than Petitioner's pre-injury average weekly wage and that Petitioner had not suffered a loss in wage-earning capacity, thus the award of only a nominal sum of US$1 per week for Petitioner's lost wages claim was justified.
www.admiraltylawguide.com/circt/9thdeweert.pdf

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Section A: Section: Trade, Financial & Inland News|
Section B: FF World Air News |
Section C: FF World Ocean News | Section D: FF in Cyberspace |
Section E: The Forwarder Broker World

The Cargo Letter Correspondents:
Michael S. McDaniel, Esq., Editor (Countryman & McDaniel).
Cameron W. Roberts, Esq. (Countryman & McDaniel).

Written from wire stories, the Associated Press, Reuters, Hong Kong Shipping News Lloyds & other world sources.

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