Wilsey Poirrier v. Nicklos Drilling Company

How courts have described this case

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• “This circuit has already recognized the removability, on diversity grounds, of maritime actions brought in state courts_”
• The saving to suitors clause does not “limit the right of defendants to remove [suits seeking non-maritime remedies] to federal court where there exists some basis for federal jurisdiction other than admiralty.”
• “[The ‘saving to suitors’ clause] does not guarantee [claimants] a nonfederal forum, or limit the right of defendants to remove such actions to federal court where there exists some basis for federal jurisdiction other than admiralty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).