Court Opinion

ID: 9428294
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:23:22.515469+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:12.722888
License: Public Domain

Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice Marshall and Justice Blackmun join, concurring.
My views are that under the 1972 Amendments: (1) a shipowner has a general duty to exercise reasonable care under the circumstances; (2) in exercising reasonable care, the shipowner must take reasonable steps to determine whether the ship’s equipment is safe before turning that equipment over to the stevedore; (3) the shipowner has a duty to inspect the equipment turned over to the stevedore or to supervise the stevedore if a custom, contract provision, law or regulation creates either of those duties; and (4) if the shipowner has actual knowledge that equipment in the control of the stevedore is in an unsafe condition, and a reasonable belief that the stevedore will not remedy that condition, the shipowner has a duty either to halt the stevedor-ing operation, to make the stevedore eliminate the unsafe condition, or to eliminate the unsafe condition itself.
*180Since I read the Court’s opinion to be consistent with these views, I join the Court’s opinion.