(August 2, 2023, 8:23 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing that a maritime insurer relies on “irrelevant dicta in old maritime cases that say nothing about the enforceability of choice-of-law provisions dictating that a particular state’s law will apply,” an insured asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the insurer’s petition for writ of certiorari that was limited to the question: “Under federal admiralty law, can a choice of law clause in a maritime contract be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the ‘strong public policy’ of the state whose law is displaced?”...