Legal Opinion
Wood v. Amerada Hess Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 8, 1994No. 92 Civ. 5385 (LBS)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAND, District Judge.
This case involves a battle between state and federally licensed maritime pilots over the right to charge lucrative pilotage fees to U.S. commercial vessels when they enter domestic ports from the U.S. Virgin Islands (the “Islands”). The dispute concerns the anomalous status of the Islands within the centuries-old statutory scheme which divides authority over domestic and foreign shipping between the states and the federal government.
Plaintiffs, eighteen state-licensed pilots, brought this action against defendant Amerada Hess Corporation (“Hess”) to recover…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Cooley v. Board of Wardens of Port of Philadelphia Ex Rel. Soc. for Relief of Distressed PilotsSupreme Court of the United States · 1852
- Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Douglas v. Seacoast Products, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Ex Parte McNielSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Holley v. Transoceanic Cable Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- Roy P. Wood, Jr. v. Amerada Hess Corporation, and Interport Pilots Agency, Inc., Defendant-Intervenor-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994
- Wood v. Amerada Hess Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994