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TANDON v. CAPTAIN'S COVE MARINA OF BRIDGEPORT

Docket No. 13-461.

752 F.3d 239 (2014)

Sapna TANDON and Robert Doohan, III, as owners and/or owners pro hac vice of a 2005 39' Outer Limits motor vessel, Petitioners-Appellants, v. CAPTAIN'S COVE MARINA OF BRIDGEPORT, INC., Jill Williams, Kaye Anthony Williams, Bruce Williams, The Restaurant at Captain's Cove Inc., aka Restaurant at Captain's Cove, and Ryan Ulbrick, Claimants-Appellees, Frank Genna, Donna Genna, Michael Hermann, and Robert Barbieri, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 19, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Mercante ( Keith A. Brady , on the brief), Rubin Fiorella & Friedman LLP, New York, N.Y., for Petitioners-Appellants.

Lawrence B. Brennan ( Andrea C. Sisca and Samuel I. Reich , on the brief), Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, Stamford, CT, for Claimant-Appellee Ryan Ulbrick.

Before: KATZMANN, Chief Judge, LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge, and CARTER, District Judge.

KATZMANN, Chief Judge:

This case calls upon us to determine whether federal admiralty jurisdiction extends to tort claims arising from a physical altercation among recreational visitors on and around a permanent dock surrounded by navigable water. We hold that federal admiralty jurisdiction does not reach the claims at issue here, because this type of incident does not have a potentially disruptive effect on maritime commerce.

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