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Supreme Court· 5/26/1941

Skiriotes v. Florida

Citations

  • 313 U.S. 69
  • 61 S. Ct. 924
  • 85 L. Ed. 1193
  • 1941 U.S. LEXIS 702

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that state law may permissibly regulate conduct outside the United States “with respect to matters in which the State has a legitimate interest and where there is no conflict with acts of Congress”
  • upholding direct state regulation of the fishing activity of its citizens beyond the territorial sea where state has legitimate interest in matter regulated
  • stating that \the United States is not debarred by any rule of international law from governing the conduct of its own citizens upon the high seas or even in foreign countries when the rights of other nations or their nationals are not infringed\
  • “[T]he law of nations . . . has always been a part of the federal common law.”
  • \[The federal act] is limited to the particular matter of [sponge] size and does not deal with the divers' apparatus which is the particular subject of the Florida statute.\
  • “the United States is not debarred by any rule of international law from governing the conduct of its own citizens upon the high seas or even in foreign countries”

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Judges: Hughes

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