| 1. | Today Admiralty jurisdiction is exercised by the United Kingdom's High Court of Justice.
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| 2. | We hold the case to be within federal admiralty jurisdiction.
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| 3. | Eventually, the American Constitution formed in 1789 vested admiralty jurisdiction in federal district courts.
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| 4. | If it did, admiralty jurisdiction followed; if it did not, admiralty jurisdiction did not exist.
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| 5. | Held : The District Court has federal admiralty jurisdiction over Great Lakes's Limitation Act suit.
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| 6. | If it did, admiralty jurisdiction followed; if it did not, admiralty jurisdiction did not exist.
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| 7. | Great Lakes then brought this lawsuit in the United States District Court, invoking federal admiralty jurisdiction.
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| 8. | The District Court dismissed the suit for lack of admiralty jurisdiction, but the Court of Appeals reversed.
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| 9. | In this case, a straightforward application of the proposed test easily produces a finding of admiralty jurisdiction.
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| 10. | The exercise of admiralty jurisdiction, however, " does not result in automatic displacement of state law ."
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