Case ID: am-samoa-2d_2/html/0021-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GARDNER, C.J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF INTEROCEAN SHIPS, INC., OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE M/V "OCEAN PEARL," FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
    High Court of American Samoa Trial Division
    CA 43-84
    July 27, 1984
    Before GARDNER, Chief Justice, Presiding, TAUANU'U, Chief Associate Judge and 0L0, Associate Judge.
   GARDNER, C.J.

Interocean Ships, Inc., the vessel owner, filed a petition in the High Court of American Samoa for a limitation of liability pursuant to 46 U.S.C. section 183.

Title 46 U.S.C. section 185 allows a vessel owner to "petition a district court of the United States of competent jurisdiction . . . ."

The High Court of American Samoa is not a district court of the 'United States. This court has no jurisdiction over this matter. Matter dismissed.