United States Second Circuit

In a personal injury action based on a fall aboard a ship, judgment for defendant is affirmed primarily as the district court had admiralty jurisdiction because the alleged tort occurred on navigable waters and the activity giving rise to the incident had a substantial relationship to traditional maritime activity, such that the incident had a potentially disruptive influence on maritime commerce.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/26/2009
• Decided 09/15/2009
• Published 09/15/2009

Judges

• DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:, Before JACOBS, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, and TRAGER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wendy Fleishman, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein LLP, New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph E. Donat (John F. Gaffney, on the brief) Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., for Appellee.