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WOOD v. AMERADA HESS CORP.

No. 92 Civ. 5385 (LBS).

845 F.Supp. 130 (1994)

Roy P. WOOD, Jr., Thomas J. Keating, T.G. Britton, Dennis M. Wheeler, C.A. Massey, William R. Lascelle, James F. Haley, Jr., Cornelius J. Keating, Peter G. Haley, William J. Ferry, Jr., E.G. Haggerty, A.W. McGovern, D.R. Sherwood, J.W. Akerman, G.A. Canvin, Jr., R.J. Schoenlank, F.E. Reil and E.F. Sweeney, Plaintiffs, v. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION, ITB PHILADELPHIA, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., in rem, ITB GROTON, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., in rem, ITB MOBILE, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., in rem, ITB NEW YORK, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., in rem, ITB JACKSONVILLE, her engines, boilers, tackle, etc., in rem, Defendants, and Interport Pilots Agency, Inc., Intervenor/Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 8, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beck & Halberg, New York City (Herbert B. Halberg, Thomas L. Johns, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City (John F. Keating, Eli Ellis, of counsel), for defendants.

Evans, Osborne & Kreizman, Red Bank, NJ (Joel N. Kreizman, of counsel), for intervenor-defendant.

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

This case involves a battle between state and federally licensed maritime pilots over the right to charge lucrative pilotage fees to U.S. commercial vessels when they enter domestic ports from the U.S. Virgin Islands (the "Islands"). The dispute concerns the anomalous status of the Islands within the centuries-old statutory scheme which divides authority over domestic and foreign shipping between the states and the federal government...

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