STATES MARINE LINES, INC. v. UNITED STATES

No. 28008.

196 F.Supp. 562 (1960)

STATES MARINE LINES, INC., a corporation, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. California, S. D.

July 22, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorr, Cooper & Hays, San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

Laurence E. Dayton, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Keith R. Ferguson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for respondent.


BURKE, District Judge.

The respondent United States excepts to the libel on file upon the ground that this court, sitting in admiralty, has no jurisdiction of a suit for declaratory judgment against the respondent. The matter came on regularly to be heard and was submitted upon respondent's brief in which libelant joined.

The respondent believes that declaratory judgment proceedings ought to be available in admiralty, but objects to its use against the United...

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