Legal Opinion
LeBlanc v. Cleveland
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 9, 1999No. Docket No. 97-9389PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge:
Etoile LeBlanc and Stephen Ossen appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Lawrence E. Kahn, Judge), entered October 1, 1997, dismissing their claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The district court based the dismissal on its conclusion that the portion of the Hudson River in which the accident giving rise to appellants’ claims took place was not a navigable waterway for purposes of establishing federal admiralty jurisdiction.
We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
On July 4, 1994, Etoile LeBlanc and Stephen Ossen suffered…
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