Cruise Line: No Review Needed In Attempt To Revive $10.3M Jones Act Verdict

(May 12, 2017, 1:50 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A trial court and subsequent state appellate court merely found that an asbestos plaintiff did not meet the causation standard for a Jones Act claim, a sufficiency-of-the-evidence ruling unworthy of U.S. Supreme Court review, a cruise line argues in a May 4 response, urging the court to reject a petition (Giovanna Settimi Caraffa, et al. v. Carnival Cruise Lines, No. 16-1074, U.S. Sup.)....

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