Labels:book | reckoner | sky OCR: The "savings to suitors" clause, currently codified at 28 U.S.C 1333(1), has favored state courts with concur rent jurisdiction over maritime claims for over WC centu- ries State courts have always been free adjudicate maritime disputesi1 and the States fres idiudicate these disputes in any fashion that does not contravene ar Act Congress otherwise runs afoul Constitu- tionally mandated protections As has been recognized federal diversity cases federal courts are not Eric- -bound to apply state forum non conveniens law ti because ohe of the primary purposes of forum noH ConvenirMs allow court use this doctrine discretiondry docket management device The same rule also applies t maritime cases brought state courts reverse Eric" does not require state courts to apply federal forut HOM conveni ...
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