Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. · ¶58

First, petitioner's reading of Title III, if adopted, could allow it to recover a potentially unlimited amount of money from an unlimited number of people who use the confscated docks at issue. Here, the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (Commission) certified that, in 1960, petitioner lost around $9 million from the confscation of the docks. Ante, at 241. The District Court determined that, under Title III, each of the four cruise lines in this case was liable to petitioner for $110 million (after trebling the certified loss plus more than a half-century's worth of interest, and awarding additional legal fees and costs).

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