Sherri D. White v. United States

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• holding that admiralty jurisdiction extends to a claim of injury while disembarking a vessel docked in navigable waters
• concluding that a security guard’s guarding of a vessel “during its repairs in port provides yet another example of conduct sufficiently connected to traditional maritime activity to confer jurisdiction on the federal courts”
• noting that guarding vessels docked for repairs and maintenance is substantially related to traditional maritime activity
• locality satisfied where a subcontracted security guard disembarked a vessel from the gangway to the dock
• Person injured while disembarking a ship docked during repairs \poses a more than fanciful risk to a variety of activities essential to maritime commerce.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).