Download This PaperRequiem for Harden v. Gordon
21 Pages Posted: 22 May 2020 Last revised: 1 Jul 2020
Date Written: April 25, 2020
Abstract
In 2019, in The Dutra Group v. Batterton, the United States Supreme Court announced that the special treatment for seamen (“emphatically the wards of the admiralty”) created by Justice Story in Harden v. Gordon (1823) is now all but dead. Academic commentary has described the announcement as “a substantial change for admiralty law.” The event seems an appropriate occasion to revisit the seminal Harden v. Gordon case and the people involved in it before it vanishes completely from view.
Keywords: admiralty, Harden, Gordon, Dutra, seamen, wards, Joseph Story, Maine
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Hornby, D. Brock, Requiem for Harden v. Gordon (April 25, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3585193 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3585193
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