Kotch v. Board of River Port Pilot Comm'rs for Port of New Orleans

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1947-04-28

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Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the Court. Louisiana statutes provide in general that all seagoing vessels moving between New Orleans and foreign ports must be navigated through the Mississippi River approaches to the port of New Orleans and within it exclusively by pilots who are State officers. 1 New State pilots *554</page-n…

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