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New Guidelines For Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction, Thomas L. Pytynia

Indiana Law Journal

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The Bases And Range Of Federal Maritime Law: Indicia Of Maritime Competence, Arthur R. Louv

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Constitution and federal statutes of the United States establish three forms of jurisdiction for the federal judiciary--diversity, federal question, and admiralty and maritime. This scheme of multi-based jurisdiction necessarily raises a fundamental problem in our federal judicial system: the interrelation of these grants of power.

Mr. Justice Story, the author of the opinion in Swift v. Tyson, viewed the grants of diversity, federal question, and maritime competence as complementary, and utilized this concept in an attempt to create a uniform body of federal commercial common law. In "Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins", however, the Supreme Court rejected the principle …