The district court then held a bench trial to resolve the issues of laches and waiver. Doyle v. Huntress, Inc. (Doyle III), 474 F.Supp.2d 337 (D.R.I. 2007). It awarded three of the seamen $1,274.
Here, appellants were paid under a lay-share system that "is not illegal or unjust." Doyle v. Huntress, 474 F.Supp.2d 337, 344 (D.R.I. 2007) (" Doyle III"). As in the Doyle line of cases, "[t]he violation of ยง 10601 was not that the seamen were not paid, but that they were not given fixed written employment contracts before each trip."