[Download] "Interport Pilots Agency Inc. v. Sammis" by United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Interport Pilots Agency Inc. v. Sammis
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 10, 1994
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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JACOBS, Circuit Judge : On this appeal this Court has occasion for the first time to construe the Federal Boundary Waters Act, enacted in 1837 and codified in its current version at 46 U.S.C. § 8501(b) (1989) (the ""boundary statute""). The boundary statute allows vessels entering or leaving a port on waters that are a boundary between two states to use a pilot licensed by either state. Connecticut-licensed pilots assert a right under the boundary statute to pilot ships to New York ports on Long Island Sound, and are protesting their treatment at the hands of New York authorities, who claim that the boundary statute does not apply to Long Island Sound and therefore confers no entitlement on the Connecticut pilots. The Connecticut pilots also allege violations of their substantive and procedural due process rights, actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and a common law claim for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage.