New admiralty case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In brief, the case involved an allision between a Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) and an oil platform. The issue in the case was whether the trial court mistakenly let an admiralty case go to a jury when admiralty cases are not tried by juries. The court found the case governed by the civil procedure rules and not the admiralty rules.The case is Apache Corp. v. Global Santa Fe Drilling Co., 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 14454 and can be found here.
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