High Court Won’t Hear Seaman’s Claim That Maritime Award Was Wrongly Enforced

Mealey's (April 18, 2022, 12:12 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 18 denied a seaman’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ affirmance of an Indian arbitral award in his favor for incinerator injuries the seaman suffered aboard a vessel in 1999, which he had argued could not be resolved by arbitration because some entities with interests in the vessel had not signed his deed of employment....