June Mendez v. Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the plaintiffs may bring lawsuits for maritime courts in state or federal court and that “[r]egardless of the chosen forum, the applicable substantive law will be federal maritime law”
• “The saving-to-suitors clause allows claimants to pursue actions for maritime torts at law either in state courts or in federal courts pursuant to diversity jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).