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- SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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- Nos. 93-762 and 93-1094
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- JEROME B. GRUBART, INC., PETITIONER
- 93-762 v.
- GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK
- COMPANY et al.
-
- CITY OF CHICAGO, PETITIONER
- 93-1094 v.
- GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK
- COMPANY et al.
- on writs of certiorari to the united states court
- of appeals for the seventh circuit
- [February 22, 1995]
-
- Justice O'Connor, concurring.
- I concur in the Court's judgment and opinion. The
- Court properly holds that, when a court is faced with a
- case involving multiple tortfeasors, some of whom may
- not be maritime actors, if one of the putative tortfeasors
- was engaged in traditional maritime activity alleged to
- have proximately caused the incident, then the suppos-
- edly wrongful activity -involves- traditional maritime
- activity. The possible involvement of other, nonmaritime
- parties does not affect the jurisdictional inquiry as to
- the maritime party. Ante, at 13-14. I do not, however,
- understand the Court's opinion to suggest that, having
- found admiralty jurisdiction over a particular claim
- against a particular party, a court must then exercise
- admiralty jurisdiction over all the claims and parties
- involved in the case. Rather, the court should engage in
- the usual supplemental jurisdiction and impleader
- inquiries. See 28 U. S. C. 1367 (1988 ed., Supp. V);
- Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 14; see also ante, at 3. I find
- nothing in the Court's opinion to the contrary.
-