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INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CO. v. HYDRA OFFSHORE, INC.

No. 895, Docket 88-7003.

875 F.2d 388 (1989)

INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING COMPANY, S.A., and Lygren Maritime Services, S.A., Plaintiffs-Appellants, and A. Richard Golub, as Attorney, Appellant, v. HYDRA OFFSHORE, INC., T. Peter Pappas, James Pappas, American General Resources, Inc., Astron Management Corporation, Richard Jaross, and Maryland Navigation Co., Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 17, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Richard Golub, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Tulio R. Prieto (Cardillo & Corbett, New York City), for defendants-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, CARDAMONE, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Subject matter jurisdiction is the sine qua non of the exercise of power by a federal court. One purpose of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is to prevent an attorney from haling a party into federal court without having performed, at the very least, a reasonable inquiry into the jurisdictional underpinning of the lawsuit.

The facts necessary for our decision are undisputed. In May 1987, International...

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