47 U.S.C. § 32
Section 32 · Application
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. M/V Cape Fear (1991)
Most recently applied in 500 F. Supp. 2d 1100 - Helcher v. Dearborn County (July 2007)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The provisions of this chapter shall be held to apply only to cables to which the convention for the time being applies.