The cargo ship Dali is seen from Fort McHenry after being moved from the site of its collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on May 20. three months ago, allowing some of the ship’s crew to leave the United States without a legal fight ahead of their likely depositions in a civil case over liability for the disaster.Thursday, eight members of the Dali’s crew may soon return to their home countries of India or Sri Lanka.
Those permitted to leave, he wrote in the notification email, included the ship’s cook, an oiler and several able seamen — who work on the deck of the Dali. Under the deal reached ahead of an emergency hearing in federal court Thursday morning, lawyers for the shipping interests agreed to accept service of subpoenas for the depositions, which would be taken “in London or elsewhere” sometime after October. The shipping lawyers also agreed to turn over certain records regarding the crew members.U.S.
Litigation over the disaster would be long and complex, and he expected lawyers to “bring their A game,” Bredar said. He directed his ire primarily at the inspector’s lawyers, Jason P. Foster and William H. “Billy” Murphy Jr.