Uralde v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the SAA governed plaintiff’s claims for negligence by Coast Guard personnel stationed on land in making decisions for a vessel passenger’s treatment and transportation
• “[W]hen Coast Guard personnel are negligent in performing functions other than those ‘in the operation of’ public vessels, the claims arising from those acts fall under the SAA, rather than the PVA.”
• “Claims seeking relief for damages caused directly by a public vessel, or by the negligent operation thereof, fall under the PVA. The SAA covers all remaining admiralty claims, including those simply involving public vessels.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).