Raymond E. Pryor, Personal Representative of the Estate of Marion L. Stephens, Deceased v. American President Lines

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• holding that \a ship or its appurtenances must proximately cause an injury on shore\ to fall within admiralty jurisdiction
• noting that under either federal diversity or admiralty jurisdiction tort claim would be rooted in maritime law
• indicating that the constitutional grant of maritime jurisdiction to Article III courts \has been interpreted ... as empowering federal courts to draw on and develop the substantive admiralty law\
• finding vessel did not cause plaintiff's injuries on land \[b]ecause it is not conceptually possible to charge the ship with having caused the defective packaging ...\
• describing \but for” causation as a potentially \limitless” standard under which \Eve’s trespass caused all our woe\ (citing 2 Harper & James, The Law of Torts 1108 (1956))

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