Maritime Law: The Gateway to Federal Court: Admiralty Jurisdiction and Limitation of Liability
The authors review federal court jurisdiction in maritime cases, including the circumstances under which shipowners in the United States may be entitled to limit their liability in respect of a maritime casualty.
In the United States, state and federal courts operate on a dual track, with the difference that state courts are courts of “general jurisdiction” (hearing all cases not specifically reserved to federal courts), while federal courts are courts of “limited subject matter jurisdiction” (hearing cases involving “diversity of citizenship,” raising a “federal question,” or “sounding in admiralty”).
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“Maritime Law: The Gateway to Federal Court: Admiralty Jurisdiction and Limitation of Liability,” by Noe S. Hamra and Zachary R. Cain was published in the May 2022 edition of Pratt’s Energy Law Report (Vol. 22, No. 5), an A.S. Pratt Publication, LexisNexis. Reprinted with permission.
This article was first published in the December 2021 edition of Mainbrace, Blank Rome’s quarterly maritime newsletter.