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Article: Recent developments in admiralty law in the United States Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit, and the Eleventh Circuit.
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- Houston Journal of International Law
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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I. INTRODUCTION
The 1996 term of the Supreme Court reflected the Court's recent approach to general maritime law claims, that "admiralty judges should look primarily to the legislature for policy guidance and should supplement the statutory remedies only to achieve uniform vindication of legislative policies."(1) The Court has relied heavily on the circuit courts for the "sifting"(2) of various principles and tests before accepting a case to resolve a conflict between the circuit courts. The result is that the primary burden of declaring principles of maritime law lies with the federal circuit courts; and the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits certainly carry their ...
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