No. 24-397
Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, et al.
Tags: admiralty-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-courts maritime-law navigational-capacity-test negligence-liability
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Latest Conference:
2024-12-13
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Does the navigational capacity test used by the
Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on Maryland's right to enforce its chosen legal doctrine for negligence liability?
2. Is the navigability in fact test used by the Seventh,
Eighth, and Ninth Circuits, rather than the test to determine the admiralty jurisdiction of federal courts over a body of water?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Does the navigational capacity test used by the Fourth Circuit constitute an overbroad expansion of federal admiralty jurisdiction and encroach on Maryland's right to enforce its chosen legal doctrine for negligence liability?
Docket Entries
2024-12-16
Petition DENIED.
2024-11-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2024.
2024-11-21
Reply of petitioner Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc. filed.
2024-11-08
Brief of Raymond C. Bostic and Candice M. Bateman in support submitted.
2024-11-08
Brief of respondents Raymond C. Bostic and Candice M. Bateman in support filed.
2024-11-05
Brief of Baltimore Gas & Electric Company in opposition submitted.
2024-11-05
Brief of respondent Baltimore Gas & Electric Company in opposition filed.
2024-10-04
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 8, 2024)
Attorneys
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company
Howard J. Schulman — Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP, Respondent
Candice Bateman
Coastline Commercial Contracting, Inc.
Charles Benjamin Peoples — Thomas, Thomas & Hafer LLP, Petitioner
Raymond C. Bostic and Candice M. Bateman
Walter Edward Gillcrist Jr. — Budow and Noble, P.C., Respondent