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Seizures Of United States Fishing Vessels - The Status Of The Wet War, Jane Shuttleworth Wiegand
Seizures Of United States Fishing Vessels - The Status Of The Wet War, Jane Shuttleworth Wiegand
San Diego Law Review
The crux of the fishing vessel dispute is the disparity in the size of the territorial sea claimed by the three Latin American nations and that claimed by the United States. Chile, Ecuador, and Peru claim a territorial sea of 200 miles breadth, while the United States claims a three mile territorial sea, and an exclusive fishing zone which extends from shore a distance of twelve miles. The dispute is 17 years old. More than 140 United States tuna ships have been seized, primarily by Ecuador and Peru, and innumerable others harassed in waters which the United States considers res …
Admiralty Jurisdiction, Unification, And The American Law Institute, Hiller B. Zobel
Admiralty Jurisdiction, Unification, And The American Law Institute, Hiller B. Zobel
San Diego Law Review
In light of the rationale behind the establishment of the admiralty jurisdiction, it seems to me constitutionally and statutorily illogical to say that a case is within the admiralty jurisdiction, concurrent though it may be, and yet subject to the substantive whims of fifty jurisdictions. Further, the inquiry which the existence of these exceptions requires sometimes leads the courts to the kind of unhappy convolutions typified by Fireman's Fund American Insurance Company v. Boston Harbor Marina, Inc., which held that an exculpatory contract for winter storage and repair - in a terrene hangar - was within the admiralty jurisdiction and …