U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994

Wood v. Amerada Hess Corp.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · Decided October 12, 1994 · Cardamone, Kearse, Newman

37 F.3d 87; 1994 WL 571658 (Federal Reporter, Third Series)

Counsel

Herbert B. Halberg, New York City (Cel-estino Tesonero, Beck & Halberg, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants., John F. Keating, New York City (Eli Ellis, Hill, Betts & Nash, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Amerada Hess Corp., " Joel N. Kreizman, Little Silver, NJ (Evans, Osborne, Kreizman and Bonney, on the brief), for defendant-intervenor-appellee In-terport Pilots Agency, Inc.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM:

This appeal presents the issue of whether state pilots were entitled to collect pilotage fees pursuant to New York and New Jersey pilotage statutes, N.Y.Nav.Law § 88(1) (McKinney 1989) and N.J.Stat.Ann. § 12:8-35 (West Supp. 1994), for certain voyages of United States commercial vessels traveling between New York and the United States Virgin Islands. The District Court for the Southern District of New York (Leonard B. Sand, Judge) ruled on cross-motions for summary judgment that, under the circumstances presented, state pilotage fees could not be collected. Wood v. Amerada Hess Corp., 845 F.Supp. 130 (S.D.N.Y. 1994). We affirm on the comprehensive opinion of Judge Sand.

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