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89 Tul. L. Rev. 1059 (2014-2015)

handle is hein.journals/tulr89 and id is 1137 raw text is: Amiable or Merry? An Update on Maritime Punitive Damages Stevan C. Dittman* I. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................... 1059 II. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ....................................................... 1061 1II. THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHS IN ON DUE PROCESS ................ 1063 IV MILESAND ITS W AKE ................................................................ 1069 V MILESALTERS THE SEASCAPE OF MAINTENANCE AND C U RE .......................................................................................... 1073 VI. TOWNSEND--MLESEBBS ......................................................... 1078 VII. WHAT ABOUT UNSEAWORTHINESS? .......................................... 1088 VIIL MILESSEQUEBATUR .................................................................. 1089 IX . M LESEXPLOSUS ....................................................................... 1093 X . M cB R vE ................................................................................... 1096 X I. CONCLUSION .............................................................................. 1100 I. INTRODUCTION Punitive damages have been a staple of the law of torts since time immemorial, yet definitive parameters for this remedy remain subject to a fog of uncertainty in maritime law.' In Atlantic Sounding Co. v Townsend, the United States Supreme Court, through Justice Clarence Thomas, asserted, Punitive damages have long been an available remedy at common law for wanton, willful, or outrageous conduct.'2 Citing jurisprudence from the American Colonial Era, in which courts, applying English law, permitted juries to award such damages, the Townsend Court recognized that a jury's broad discretion to set damages included the authority to award punitive damages when the circumstances of the case warranted.3 Thus, even prior to the * © 2015 Stevan C. Dittman. Stevan C. Dittman is a member of the firm of Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer, L.L.C. in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Tulane University Law School, where he serves as a member of the adjunct faculty. 1. Geoffrey L. Wendt, The Fog of Uncertainty Enshmuding Employer Punitve Damage Liability Under Gnerl Mantihme Law, MAR. L. BULL., Summer 2010, insert. 2. 557 U.S. 404,409,2009 AMC 1521, 1523 (2009). 3. Id, 2009 AMC at 1524. 1059

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