Eastern Transportation Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• “A Court [should not] enlarge [the Government’s] liability to suit beyond what the language requires.”
• an action may be maintained under the Suits in Admiralty Act against the United States for a tort caused by the government's negligence in dealing with one of its wrecked vessels and its failure to comply with its own navigational laws
• an action may be maintained under the Suits in Admiralty Act against the United States for a tort caused by the government’s negligence in dealing with one of its wrecked vessels and its failure to comply with its own navigational laws

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).