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Hawaiian Rum Company Challenges the Jones Act | Why the Jones Act? | Koloa Rum v Kristi Noem

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Why is the Rum Gone? February 28, 2025 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the Koloa Rum Company suing the United States to repeal the cabotage provision of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (aka the Jones Act) under the Po