Opinion ID: 76995
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Refusal to Set Off Diversity and Admiralty Judgments

Text: 18 Finally, Sweet Pea argues that the district court erred by refusing to set off its judgment in favor of APJ on its maritime claims against the jury's award to Sweet Pea on its diversity claims because the claims were derived from the identical set of operative facts. See Blount v. Windley, 95 U.S. 173, 177, 24 L.Ed. 424 (1877) (discussing the propriety of setting off two judgments where they constitute mutual obligations [which] have grown out of the same transaction); Mecom v. Levingston Shipbuilding Co., 622 F.2d 1209, 1216-17 (5th Cir.1980) (setting off judgment given in admiralty with judgment given on counterclaim arising from the same set of operative facts). Based on our disposition of the district court's award of damages in favor of APJ, however, the issue of set-off has been mooted, and therefore we decline to consider the merits of Sweet Pea's set-off arguments.