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Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. et al.
356 U.S. 955·Supreme Court of the United States·1958
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Opinion
No. 322.
Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. et al.
Argued March 13, 1958.
This case is restored to the calendar for reargument during the week of October 13, 1958.
Nar-ciso Puente, Jr., Silas B. Axtell and Charles A. Ellis for petitioner.
John L. Quinlan and John M. Aherne for Compania Trasatlántica and Garcia & Diaz, Inc.; Sidney A. Schwartz and William J. Kenney for the Quin Lumber Co., Inc., and John P. Smith for the International Terminal Operating Co., respondents.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Lawrence Hunt and Daniel L. Stonebridge for the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and for the Government of Denmark, and James M. Estabrook and David P. H. Watson for Skibsfartens Arbeidsgiver-forening (Norwegian Shipping Federation) and Sveriges Redareforening (Swedish Shipowner’s Association).
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Certiorari, 355 U. S. 807, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.