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Lose Some / Win Some : A trial involving our client, an injured passenger, ended poorly for us and well for Royal Caribbean which obtained a defense verdict after a three day trial (and two years of litigation). The case was defended by the law firm of Horr, Novak Skipp . Although he got popped last year with a verdict over $9,000,000 in a cruise line case, Mr. Horr is, in my opinion, the best defense lawyer for the cruise lines in Miami. Supported by the usual small army of cruise lawyers and support staff, he did his usual great job. This is only the second case Cruise orlando vacation packages Law has lost in the past ten years. We are consoled by the fact that the cruise orlando vacation packages line probably spent over $150,000 defending the case. A $15,000,000,000 cruise line corporation which pays no U.S. taxes has money to burn. It's a nice feeling to see good lawyers like Horr get paid lots of money, especially by the scoundrels at Royal Caribbean.
Another Sexual Assault on the Love Boat? : According to the LA Weekly Blogs , another alleged sexual assault aboard a Princess cruise orlando vacation packages ship has ended up in court. California resident Marisa Foppoli claims orlando vacation packages in her lawsuit that a crew member aboard the Island Princess sexually assaulted her while cruising from Acapulco to Florida. The passenger alleged that the crew member had a prior, similar incident of misconduct while employed orlando vacation packages aboard orlando vacation packages one of Princess' ships.
orlando vacation packages We have reported orlando vacation packages on sex crimes on cruise ships operated by Princess before: Unsafe on the Love Boat? - Sexual Assaults on Princess Cruise Ships . A Princess crew member tried last year for a sexual assault was acquitted last year - Love Boat Waiter Acquitted of Sexually Assaulting Passenger .
More Drugs on a Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship : Two weeks ago, we blogged about three Royal Caribbean crew members (cooks) who smuggled heroin and cocaine from the Dominican Republic orlando vacation packages during a stop of the Royal Caribbean's Enchantment of the Seas and were arrested after the cruise ship reached Baltimore. Well here we go again. CBS News reports that $100,000 worth of cocaine orlando vacation packages and heroin were found in a crew only area on the same cruise ship which has been sailing from Baltimore to the Caribbean islands.
Cruise, Crime, and Beheaded Mexicans is Hard to Sell : Speaking of drugs, last week Carnival said Thursday that it is pulling the last of its cruise ships (the Carnival Spirit ) out of southern California to Australia next year.
Tomorrow Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas is making its final voyage from the Port of Los Angeles and will re-position to its new home base of Galveston, orlando vacation packages Texas. Norwegian Cruise Line's Star cruise ship will leave Los Angeles in a couple of months to reposition to Tampa.
The Los Angeles Times has reported that drug-related violence has meant fading interest in cruises to Mexico, the chief destination of California-based ships. The AP reports that although the port officials and cruise industry have tried to emphasize that most violence in Mexico takes place away from cruise destinations, the message has a hard time competing with images of beheaded bodies on the news. Ugh.
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