DeVargas v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a gangway is the dividing line between admiralty and state jurisdiction
• clarifying that jurisdiction in Gu-tiemz turned solely on the fact that the injury was caused by an appurtenance of the ship
• stating that “the gangplank has served as a rough dividing line between state and maritime regimes” with piers and docks “deemed extensions of land”
• clarifying that jurisdiction in Gutierrez turned solely on the fact that the injury was caused by an appurtenance of the ship
• noting that the Jones “Act covered crewmen injured ashore as well as aboard”
• stating .that “the gangplank has served as a rough dividing line between state and maritime regimes” with piers and docks “deemed extensions of land”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).