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Calvin M. Costanza v. Florida Marine Transporters, LLC
Paid petition · Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit, No. 2024 CA 0913 · judgment April 17, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether under 46 U.S.C.A. § 30104 (The Jones Act) relaxed causation standard, requiring only that the employer’s negligence play “any part, even the slightest, i.e. featherweight standard” in producing injury, applies to toxic tort claims involving scientific causation, or whether a plaintiff must meet the heightened Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993) style requirement for dose response and threshold exposure evidence.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
John Maxwell Robin
Law Offices John M. Robin
For respondent
Corey Patrick Parenton
Staines, Eppling & Kenney LLC
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Mar 02 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 11 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/27/2026.
- Jan 22 2026Brief of respondent Florida Marine Transporters, LLC in opposition filed.
- Dec 17 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 22, 2026)