Court Opinion

ID: 9443602
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:25:47.384192+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:33.028035
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On Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
The petition states that we found the Jamison and Alpha decisions inapplicable so far as the Jones Act is concerned because they involved torts committed on a seaman by his superior while here such tort was “committed by another, at the superior’s direction.” The opinion makes no such distinction, holding only that those decisions were no authority for including false arrest and false imprisonment within the concept of negligence so as to come within the Jones Act.
In urging that situs no longer determines whether a tort is maritime, O’Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 318 U.S. 36, 43, 63 S.Ct. 488, 87 L.Ed. 596, is quoted out of context in the petition. As the quotation there appears the reader would assume that O’Donnell involved a maritime tort, and not, as it did, a Jones Act situation, and further, that the Supreme Court had overruled the well-established situs test for maritime torts. The fact is it merely held that Jones Act suits would lie even though the injury occurred on land so long as it was inflicted in the course of the seaman’s employment. The plain meaning of Section 33 of the Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, bears out that construction. We gave the Jones Act that scope in our discussion, but held it inapplicable for other reasons.
In Strika v. Netherlands Ministry of Traffic, 2 Cir., 1950, 185 F.2d 555, also referred to in the petition, the personal injury involved arose out of an unseaworthy condition. The decision has no relevancy here.
The petition will be denied.