Taghadomi v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this test was met where kayakers fell overboard and a rescue mission was attempted, because the “efficacy of search-and-rescue operations has a direct effect on the health and lives of seamen”
• finding the location and nexus tests satisfied in incident involving Coast Guard search-and-rescue operations, but affirming summary judgment on other grounds
• affirming district court’s denial 18 of motion for leave to amend at summary judgment stage because plaintiffs’ claims were 19 futile as they were not legally cognizable
• applying Grubart to determine that admiralty law applied to tort action brought against the Coast Guard for alleged negligence in search and rescue of recreational kayakers, and rejecting analysis in Delta Country Ventures
• “The Supreme Court emphasized in Grubart that the nexus test is not meant to exclude broad swaths of activity....”
• “The Supreme Court empha- sized in Grubart that the nexus test is not meant to exclude broad swaths of activity . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).