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153115P.pdf 07/13/2016 Blake Marine Group v. CarVal Investors LLC
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-3115
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge, and Perry,
District Judge]
Civil case - Torts. In an action by an Alabama corporation alleging
defendant tortiously interfered with a contract between plaintiff and a
third party, the district court did not err in applying Alabama, rather
than Minnesota law, as Alabama's interest in protecting its resident
outweighed Minnesota's interest in compensating nonresident plaintiffs;
nor did the court err in finding the action was barred by Alabama's
two-year statute of limitations; since plaintiff had not shown that
admiralty jurisdiction was invoked by the alleged tort, the federal
admiralty doctrine of laches did not apply; there was no fraudulent
concealment of facts which would justify tolling the statute of
limitations.