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Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 23-1937 · judgment July 9, 2024
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Questions presented
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Does the navigational capacity test used by the Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on Maryland’s right to enforce its chosen legal doctrine for negligence liability?
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Is the navigability in fact test used by the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Ci rcuits, rather than the QDYLJDWLRQDOFDSDFLW\WHVWRUWKHHEEDQGÁRZWHVWWKH proper test to determine the admiralty jurisdiction of federal courts over a body of water?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Charles Benjamin Peoples
Thomas, Thomas & Hafer LLP
For respondent
Walter Edward Gillcrist Jr.
Budow and Noble, P.C.
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Dec 16 2024Petition DENIED.
- Nov 26 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2024.
- Nov 21 2024Reply of petitioner Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. filed.
- Nov 08 2024Brief of respondents Raymond C. Bostic and Candice M. Bateman in support filed.
- Nov 05 2024Brief of respondent Baltimore Gas & Electric Company in opposition filed.
- Oct 04 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 8, 2024)