This is not the first time the Jones Act has been sidestepped.
Those awards were made under the Jones Act.
The Jones Act formalized the rights of seaman which have been recognized for centuries.
Questioned by many before the ink had even dried, the Jones Act failed to provide any long-term solutions.
Since 2006 increased lobbying has been undertaken to scrap the Jones Act.
Consequently, retention of the Jones Act is also supported from the domestic airline, trucking, and rail industries.
I was told that this fine was mandated by a 1920 law called the Jones Act, but my travel agents are unaware of it.
Nabors won a temporary exemption to the Jones Act two years ago, but that expires in 2007 and the company sought to make it permanent.
A young farmer complained about the Jones Act, a 1920 law that he felt was partly responsible for a detrimental consolidation in the barge market.
He says these ships also qualify under the Jones Act.