Opinion ID: 1920277
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Heading: State Jurisdiction Saving to Suitors Clause

Text: While the United States Constitution grants to federal district courts jurisdiction in all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction, U.S. Const. art. III, § 2, see also 28 U.S.C. § 1333(1), state courts have concurrent jurisdiction by virtue of the saving to suitors clause of the Judiciary Act of 1789 as amended. In the present case, the plaintiffs, although their case falls within federal admiralty jurisdiction, brought their case in state court pursuant to the savings to suitors clause, designating their suit as a suit in admiralty or a general maritime claim in their original Petition for Damages: This is an admiralty and maritime claim brought in accordance with the saving-to-suitors clause, 28 U.S.C. § 1331(1). [18]