March 15, 2024
The Second Circuit on Friday backed a federal maritime agency's granting of a Mississippi River charter to the U.S. arm of Swiss cruise line operator Viking Cruises Ltd., finding that the decision wasn't arbitrary or capricious, but the court declined to weigh in on the legality of such arrangements in general.
January 12, 2024
Government agency findings are never entirely right and never entirely wrong, a Second Circuit judge griped Friday while covering an administrative law case concerning a Connecticut company's challenge to a Mississippi River charter granted to European cruise line operator Viking Cruises Ltd.
May 19, 2023
American Cruise Lines Inc. has told the Second Circuit that federal regulators improperly approved a complex deal allowing European cruise giant Viking to run a Mississippi River cruise ship in violation of U.S. maritime laws protecting the domestic passenger cruise industry.