El Estero’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “In short, the respondent’s position is, if the ship can satisfy the local inspectors as to her navigation requirements, she may employ as many additional seamen as she wants, without any of them having the protection of that part of the act providing for their division into watches. I think this position unsound, both as contrary to the letter and the spirit of the act. The only distinction between this case and O’Hara’s, where the seven sailors kept at day work only were held to be entitled to their discharge, because not divided into watches, is the matter of this certificate. It will certainly not do to say that, by a device as transparent as this, the provision for watches may be nullified, unless in the law which provided for a certificate of inspection there is expressed or implied a limitation of the operation of the act under consideration. This I cannot find.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 447 F. Supp. 72 - District 2, Marine Engineers Beneficial Ass'n v. Adams