A Florida federal judge threw out a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean that alleged fraudulent behavior in which the company's executives were accused of “artificially inflating the company’s stock price by concealing lagging bookings”.

In news that potentially could affect all cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean, New York Senator Charles "Chuck" Schumer is asking the cruise industry to adopt a "bill of rights" for passengers that will guarantee  certain protections while aboard their ships.

Brazilian Judge Juarez Fernandes Folhes of the 14th Civil Chamber of the Court of Rio, upheld a ruling against Royal Caribbean Brazil that compensated a cruise ship passenger, Sola

A man from Brazil pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery in the rape of a 15-year-old girl on the last day of cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas.

Loxly Johnson was sentenced to 20 years in prison for after he tried to import drugs into Baltimore aboard Royal Caribbean's Enchantment of the Seas.

Records show that a 25-year-old Royal Caribbean employee has been indicted on charges of sexually abusing a minor after allegations arose that he had sex with a teenage girl aboard Royal Caribbean's Enchantment Of The Seas, which sailed out of Baltimore on December 17.

After Royal Caribbean announced an accounting error during its Second Quarter 2011 fiscal results last month, the stock price dropped 13% that day and that's left one group upset to the point they are suing Royal Caribbean with making a series of materially false and misleading statements related to the Company’s business and operations in violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Steven Barry Krumholz was arrested on Royal Caribbea's Allure of the Seas in February under suspicion of selling drugs and plead guilty in a U.S. Virgin Islands court to dealing drugs on board a cruise ship.

Judge Marc Schumacher, of the 11th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, came down hard on Royal Caribbean for a hydrogen sulfide leak aboard Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas that killed three crew members and injured 19 others.

Judge Jerald Bagley of the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County, Florida has set a trial date of November 7, 2011 for the case of Amaran v Royal Caribbean to go to court.

The lawsuit alleges on March 8th 2004, Preetha Amaran collapsed on a treadmill aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship and that Royal Caribbean's doctor and staff took too long to treat her properly and as a result, she had suffered an irreversible anoxic brain injury.