Law for special environments: jurisdiction over polar activities

The T-3 ice island case involved two trials in the United States of a Mexican-American, Mario Escamilla, for allegedly causing the death of a Negro coworker, Bennie Lightsey, on an ice island then at lat 84°45.8'N, long 106°24.4'W, on the High Seas, about 240 km north of Ellesmere Island o...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Wilkes, Daniel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1973
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Ellesmere Island
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400063646
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400063646
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Summary:The T-3 ice island case involved two trials in the United States of a Mexican-American, Mario Escamilla, for allegedly causing the death of a Negro coworker, Bennie Lightsey, on an ice island then at lat 84°45.8'N, long 106°24.4'W, on the High Seas, about 240 km north of Ellesmere Island on 16 July 1970. A federal judge in Virginia allowed Escamilla's first trail to proceed without definitively deciding on objections to jurisdiction, for he expected a ruling on this point on appeal. Issues raised by that trial are covered elsewhere (Pharand, 1971; Wilkes, 1972).

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