3rd Circuit Overturns Barnes, Issues New Ruling On Seafarers’ Contracts

(December 5, 2017, 1:49 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel of 12 judges on Dec. 4 overruled its decision in Barnes v. Andover Co., L.P. and held that where a seafarer freely enters a union contract, courts may not review that contract piecemeal unless there is evidence that the collective bargaining process was unfair (James L. Joyce v. Maersk Line Ltd., No. 16-3553, 3rd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 24433)....

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