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Case of the Day: Kiribati Seafood v. Dechert
The case of the day is Kiribati Seafood Co. v. Dechert LLP (Mass. 2017). Kiribati and Olympic Packer, LLC were Washington companies. Kiribati owned the Madee, a fishing vessel, which it chartered to Olympic and to Dojin Co. for fishing tuna in the Pacific. The ship’s rudder was damaged, and it was put in dry……
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Case of the Day: Banque de Tahiti v. Kurth
The case of the day is Banque de Tahiti v. Kurth (Haw. Ct. App. 2017). The Bank of Tahiti had a judgment against Filola Kurth, the representative of the estate of Thomas Kurth, from the Civil Court of First Instance of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia. The Bank filed the judgment in Hawaii in……