Supreme Court of the United States grants certiorari in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. et al.

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., et al., No. 24-983. Creed & Gowdy attorneys Bryan Gowdy and Dimitri Peteves drafted an amicus brief in support of the petitioner. The amicus brief was filed on behalf of a bipartisan group of congresspersons: Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, Sen. Rick Scott, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. María Elvira Salazar, and Rep. Carlos Antonio Giménez. The petitioner, Havana Docks, sued several cruise lines under the Helms-Burton Act-also known as theLIBERTAD Act-for trafficking in property confiscated by Cuba. The question presented in the petition iswhether a plaintiff must prove that the defendant trafficked in property confiscated by the Cubangovernment as to which the plaintiff owns a claim (as the statute requires), or instead that thedefendant trafficked in property that the plaintiff would have continued to own at the time of trafficking ina counterfactual world "as if there had been no expropriation" (as the divided Eleventh Circuit panelheld below).