Read R.M.S. Titanic, Inc. v. Wrecked & Abandoned Vessel, 04-1933

Order refusing to grant comity or to recognize a decision of a French administrator awarding plaintiff title to certain artifacts salvaged from a wrecked vessel and rejecting a claim to title to artifacts under the maritime law of finds is reversed in part where the district court lacked jurisdiction over the artifacts at issue.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/26/2005
• Decided 01/31/2006
• Published 01/31/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, and NIEMEYER and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ARGUED:  David Jeremy Bederman, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellant.  Neal Lawrence Walters, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae.   ON BRIEF:  J. Ridgely Porter, III, Matthew D. Pethybridge, Carr & Porter, L.L.C., Portsmouth, Virginia, for Appellant.  John Paul Jones, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, for Alain de Foucaud, Amicus Supporting Appellant.