Court Opinion

ID: 9442649
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 18:54:52.877792+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:10.525893
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SWAN, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The decision in Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, 128 U.S. 85, 66 S.Ct. 872, 90 L.Ed. 1099, “created a new right in maritime workers, not members of the crew of a vessel, which has not hitherto been recognized by the maritime law or by any statute.”1 Whether the right extends to injuries incurred by a stevedore while working on shore was expressly left open by the majority opinion.2 If the new right is to he so extended, the Supreme Court, not we, should, in my opinion, be the court to make the extension. I think the judgment should be reversed and the complaint dismissed.

. The quotation is from the dissenting opinion, 328 U.S. at page 103, 66 S.Ct. at page 881, 90 L.Ed. 1099.

. 328 U.S. at page 99, 66 S.Ct. at page 879, 90 L.Ed. 1099, note 17.