Legal Opinion
Jerome B. Grubart, Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 22, 1995No. 93-762PublishedCited by 730 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Souter
On April 13, 1992, water from the Chicago River poured into a freight tunnel running under the river and thence into the basements of buildings in the downtown Chicago Loop. Allegedly, the flooding resulted from events several months earlier, when respondent Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company had used a crane, sitting on a barge in the river next to a bridge, to drive piles into the riverbed above the tunnel. The issue before us is whether a court of the United States has admiralty jurisdiction to determine and limit the extent of Great Lakes’s tort liability. We hold this suit to be within…
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