Wood v. Amerada Hess Corporation

Full title: ROY P. WOOD, JR., ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS, v. AMERADA HESS…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Date published: Oct 12, 1994

37 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 1994)

Opinion

No. 223, Docket 94-7255.

Argued September 1, 1994.

Decided October 12, 1994.

Herbert B. Halberg, New York City (Celestino Tesoriero, 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 Interport Pilots Agency, Inc.

Appeal from the Opinion and Order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Leonard B. Sand, Judge.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, KEARSE and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.

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.