Admiralty law articles written by James Mercante

NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL   ADMIRALTY LAW COLUMN

3.28.2025 – DALI Drama
7.11.2024 – Insurer Wins Unanimous Decision in New York Choice of Law Battle
11.30.2023 – Seaman’s Manslaughter Statute Sinks Dive Boat Captain
8.8.2023 – Dead-Reckoning
4.19.2023 – Off to Sea the Wizard High Court Take on Marine Insurance Dispute
2.25.2022 – A Ship Arrest is No Pleasure Cruise
7.8.2021 – Ever Given Ship Ruins
2.25.2021 – Good Faith Matters Utmost
10.30.2020 – Slave Ships When Mutiny Matters
8.25.2020 – Covid Meets Maritime Strange Bedfellows
2.20.2020 – Cruising for a Bruising
10.21.2019 – Fire and Water Fatal Mixture
6.27.2019 – Supreme Courts Dips Into Admiralty
2.21.2019 – Admiralty 2, Navy 0
10.31.2018 – Yacht on My Lawn
2.21.2018 – Mari-Crimes on the Radar
10.31.2017 – Sea Monster Fought law, and the Law Won
6-28-2017 – Troubled Waters
2-22-2017 – From Sea to Shining Sea
10.31.2016 – Bermuda-triangle-trick-or-trap
7.25.2016 – Treasure-at-Sea-Finders-Are-Not-Always-Keepers
6.3.2016 – Circuit-Applies-Admiralty-Law-to-Diving-Accident-in-Lake-New-York-Law-Journal
2-24-2016 – Admiralty Arsenal Limitation of Liability
10-14-2015 – El Faro’s Sinking Stirs Jones Act Debate
4.1.2015 – Arbitrating-Seamens-Personal-Injury-Claims
5-15-2014 – Death Before Dishonor
10.31.2013 – Workers-Attempted-Suicide
9-10-2013 – Superstorm Sandy Resurfaces in Court
1-18-2013 – Italy Cruise Ship Lawsuits Unlikely to Survive
10-31-2012 – Mischievous Seamen Sometimes Get no Treat
4-12-2012 – In the Wake of The Titanic
9.12.2011 – Navy-Sailors-Death-Implicates-Maritime-Law
10-31-2008 – Crew-Napping  Perils on the High Seas
4.28.2008 – Jurisdiction-Fisticuffs-and-Oil-Spills
10.31.2006 – Edmund-Fitzgerald
10.1.2006 – Jones-Inlet-Tragedy-the-Final-Chapters
5.31.2005 – US-Supreme-Court-Revisits-Meaning-of-Vessel
1-31-2005 – Pilots as Plaintiffs and Defendants

ADMIRALTY LAW

9-19-2008 Exxon Valdez
11-8-2007 Damages Sailing in Fog
10-31-2007 The Fall of Ships
4.26.2007 – It Pays to be Attached
1.29.2007 – Causation Reaches Supreme Court
8.29.2006 – Trains-Planes-Admiralty-Jurisdiction
1.30.2006 – Cruise Lines on the Radar Screen
10-28-2005 Of Hurricanes Acts of God and Admiralty Jurisdiction
8-29-2005 Does Maritime Contract Afford Admiralty Jurisdiction

BOATING WORLD – MERCANTE’S SEA TRIALS

10-1-2013 – Marine Ins. Getting Nauti
9-1-2013 – Superstorm Sandy lawsuit Blows Over
7-1-2012 – I Jump – Therefore I Sue
5-1-2012 – Fraud and Concealment
4.1.2012 – That-Sinking-Feeling-the-Bank-Took-My-Boat
1-1-2012 – Admiralty Laws you can Choose
10.24.2011 – Admiralty-Law-Liability-Waiver-Decision-a-Step-Forward-for-Entrenching-Uniformity
8-1-2011 – Don’t Lean On Me
7-1-2011 – Admiralty Law and Acts of God
4-1-2011 – Knocked Out By a Watercraft Exclusion
10-1-2010 – Boom Bang, What’s that Smell
8-1-2010 – Winning Fight, Losing Insurance
7-1-2010 – Know Your Insurance Policy
4-1-2010 – Cigarettes, Fire, and Videotape
6-1-2009 – Navigation Limits Out of Bounds
5-1-2009 – Admiralty Law Finders Keepers
4.1.2009 – Biting-the-Hand-that-Tries-to-Save-You
10-30-2008 – Sorry Wrong Captain
9-1-2008 – Are you a Seaman
8-1-2008 – Even a Collision Has Its Limits
7.1.2008 – Close-Encounters-of-the-Uncovered-Kind
6-1-2008 – Penalty For Delay
5-1-2008 – Ins Coverage Shot Down
4.1.2008 – Judge-Rules-Salvage-not-Towing-Hooray
2-1-2008 – Speedboat Owner Denied Ins
11-30-2007 – Admiralty Law Out for the Count
9-1-2007 – What’s a Seaman
8.1.2007 – Admiralty-Law-When-Right-of-Way-Is-Wrong
7.1.2007 – Admiralty-Law-Is-There-a-Duty-to-Rescue
6-1-2007 – Jet Skiing When Friends Collide
5-1-2007 – Honesty is the Best Policy
3-1-2007 – Fire Case Won by TKO
3-1-2007 – Court Ruling Gives New Meaning to Home Sweet Home
11-1-2006 – Jones Inlet Accident. The End Part II
9.1.2006 – One-Mans-Peril-May-Be-Another’s-Profit
8-1-2006 – Five Short Blasts
7-1-2006 – Who is an Operator
6.1.2006 – Hurricane-Duty-A-Vessel-Owners-Obligation
5-1-2006 – Marine Ins Are you My Agent
4-1-2006 – Liability for Serving Alcohol at Sea
3.1.2006 – All-Ashore-Is-Not-Always-Fun-and-Games
8-1-2005 – Racing Can Be Hazardous to your Health
7-1-2005 – The Case of Big Foot and Undulating Wave
6-1-2005 – Breach of Lay Up Warranty
1.1.2005 – Man Hit Bridge. Bridge Pay Man

Miscellaneous Articles

6.21.2021 – The Ever Given Will Ruin More Than Just a Muddy Canal (gCaptain), 6/21/2021)
8.12.2019 – Marine-Bulletin (RFF&M), 10/14/2019
1.6.2017 – Collision, Sinking, Pollution (RFF&M), 1/6/2017
1-17-2013 – MV Kandi Won – No Criminal Charges (RFF&M), 1/17/2017
1-1-2006 – Hurricanes and Act of When the Best Defense is a good Offense (University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal), 6/2005
10-31-2005 – Ghost Ship Salvaged or Victimized (NYLJ) 10/31/2005