Court Opinion

ID: 9461543
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:16:53.464806+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:06.843556
License: Public Domain

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I have some initial reluctance in thinking, particularly with relation to a charge that because of defendant’s shore-side conduct a prospective seaman was unable to obtain employment, there is admiralty jurisdiction. There must surely be some limits to such a concept. I find, however, that the same considerations are involved here as I anticipate on the basic issues on the merits. Since the court is willing to read the complaint with liberality in this respect without, I assume, committing itself to precisely what plaintiffs must prove in order to recover, I am content to accept the same approach to jurisdiction.