Murray v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[i]f “independent action of local police” means incarceration by them as a result of their own investigation and not as a result of a suggestion or collusion on the part of the owner, then the scope of liability would be extremely narrow un der the independent action of local police exception. Clearly, the local police action, although initiated by them on the island of Kos in Greece, was not entirely independent of the conduct of defendant yacht-owner in keeping hashish in his cabin safe. But for that conduct, the boarding by the police at Kos would have been routine and innocuous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 909 F. Supp. 2d 691 - Mylonakis v. The M/T Georgios M.

2. “masters should be extremely cautious about causing a seamen to be imprisoned in a foreign jail, ... there is no liability on the vessel or master for the seaman’s imprisonment ashore when it rises from the independent acts of the local police or whether it is due from the seaman’s disturbance of the peace of the port.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 909 F. Supp. 2d 691 - Mylonakis v. The M/T Georgios M.