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Appeals court expands admiralty law in diving accident - TOC News Bot - 06-12-2016
Appeals court expands admiralty law in diving accident
A federal appeals court ruled that an injury suffered on a recreational boat anchored in a shallow though navigable recreational bay falls under admiralty jurisdiction despite a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrows admiralty’s purview a bit to weed out “absurd” cases that have little to do with maritime commerce. In its 1972 decision,