Opinion ID: 987109
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: jurisdiction

Text: Although federal judicial power extend[s] ... to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, this court has concurrent jurisdiction to adjudicate this case 4 Dean v. Fishing Co. ofAlaska, No. 87407-7 under the saving to suitors clause. U.S. CoNST. art. III, § 2, cl. 1; see 28 U.S.C. § 1333(1) (The district courts shall have original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of: ( 1) Any civil case of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, saving to suitors in all cases all other remedies to which they are otherwise entitled. (emphasis added)); Endicott v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc., 167 Wn.2d 873, 878, 224 P.3d 761 (2010) (The 'saving to suitors' clause gives plaintiffs the right to sue on maritime actions in state court. (citing Madruga v. Superior Court, 346 U.S. 556, 560-61, 74 S. Ct. 298, 98 L. Ed. 143 (1954))).