ATLANTA (CN) — Carnival Cruise Line on Tuesday asked the 11th Circuit for a new trial after a Florida federal court awarded a cruise ship passenger more than $12 million in damages and interest in a false imprisonment and negligence lawsuit in which she claimed she was raped by a former crew member.
An attorney for Carnival told a three-judge panel of the appeals court that the case should be returned to Florida federal court, where jurors could get the chance to decide for themselves whether the heavily intoxicated Jane Doe was held in a storage closet against her will during a game of hide and seek.
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