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HOUSTON v. MURMANSK SHIPPING CO.

No. 80-1543.

667 F.2d 1151 (1982)

Frederick HOUSTON and Frederick Houston and Willie Mae Houston, as Husband and Wife, Appellants, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Use-Plaintiff, v. MURMANSK SHIPPING COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard M. Goldstein, Baltimore, Md. (Howard E. Horowitz, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants.

Randall C. Coleman, Baltimore, Md. (Geoffrey S. Tobias, Warren B. Daly, Jr., Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

Frederick Houston, a Baltimore longshoreman, was injured by a falling roll of newsprint while he worked in the hold of a Murmansk Shipping Company vessel. In the district court, Houston moved for a jury trial, which Murmansk, an arm of the Soviet Union, opposed. Although Murmansk is a "foreign state" as defined by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976* (FSIA), the district court was uncertain whether the...

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