TURNER

v.

LOUISIANA

Citator

Cited By (31 total)

• Turner v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 466 (U.S. 1965)
  …uch confidence the jury placed in these two witnesses. The judgment is reversed and the case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Louisiana for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. It is so ordered. 244 La. 447, 152 So. 2d 555. 376 U. S. 949. Out of the presence of the jury, Turner did testify upon the issue' of the voluntariness of his- confession, stating among other things that he had had no sleep and nothing to eat for a period of 48 hours before he confessed, but he was not in cus…
• E. River S.S. Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc., 476 U.S. 858 (U.S. 1986)
  …1960 S. Ct. Rev. 158, 164, and is now asked to incorporate products-liability concepts, long a part of the common law of torts, into the general maritime law. See Igneri v. Cie. de Transports Oceaniques, 323 F. 2d 257, 260 (CA2 1963), cert. denied, 376 U. S. 949 (1964). The Courts of Appeals sitting in admiralty overwhelmingly have adopted concepts of products liability, based both on negligence, Sieracki v. Seas Shipping Co., 149 F. 2d 98, 99-100 (CA3 1945), aff’d on other grounds, 328 U. S. 85 (1946), an…
• Sea-Land Servs., Inc. v. Gaudet, 414 U.S. 573 (U.S. 1974)
  …poses absolute liability, it often restricts recovery to damages for those injuries that are clearly ascertainable and susceptible of monetary compensation. E. g., Igneri v. Cie. de Transports Oceaniques, 323 F. 2d 257, 268 (CA2 1963), cert. denied, 376 U. S. 949 (1964). This reflects the impossibility of deterrence and the inappropriateness of punishment in many cases where liability is absolute. The Court has broken with that wise rule of social policy in this case. [*611] The Court also has ignored the…

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