Contrary to what the city suggests, City Brief 10, 14-15, 25-26, 30, exercise of federal admiralty jurisdiction does not result in automatic displacement of state law.
42.
The issue before us is whether a court of the United States has admiralty jurisdiction to determine and limit the extent of Great Lakes's tort liability.
43.
As recently as 1972, courts and parties experienced little difficulty in determining whether a case triggered admiralty jurisdiction, thanks to the simple " situs rule ."
44.
Whilst Pakistan now has its own statute, the Admiralty Jurisdiction of High Courts Ordinance, 1980 ( Ordinance XLII of 1980 ), it also follows English case law.
45.
Certainly Congress did not think a land-based party necessarily diluted the need for admiralty jurisdiction or it would have kept its hands off the primitive location test.
46.
The city, joined by petitioner Jerome B . Grubart, Inc ., one of the state-court plaintiffs, filed a motion to dismiss this suit for lack of admiralty jurisdiction.
47.
On 30 January 1585 the queen issued a commission to Dale and Sir Julius C�sar to exercise admiralty jurisdiction during the vacancy of the office of lord high admiral.
48.
Indeed, the argument that Congress intended admiralty jurisdiction to extend to injuries caused by defective appurtenances, but not to appurtenances in good condition when operated negligently, makes no sense.
49.
We elaborated on the enquiry exemplified in Executive Jet and Foremost by focusing on two points to determine the relationship of a claim to the objectives of admiralty jurisdiction.
50.
Shipbuilding contract is a non-maritime contract and not within the Admiralty jurisdiction because it is insufficiently related to any rights and duties pertaining to sea commerce and / or navigation.
