Dutra Group v. Batterton
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Alito
*2278 By granting federal courts jurisdiction over maritime and admiralty cases, the Constitution implicitly directs federal courts sitting in admiralty to proceed "in the manner of a common law court." Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker , 554 U.S. 471 , 489-490, 128 S.Ct. 2605 , 171 L.Ed.2d 570 (2008). Thus, where Congress has not prescribed specific rules, federal courts must develop the "amalgam of traditional common-law rules, modifications of those rules, and newly created rules" that forms the general maritime law. East River S. S. Corp. v. Transamerica Delaval Inc. , 476 U.S. 858 , 864-865, 106…
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