United States Eleventh Circuit

Dismissal of complaints for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, in action against the government alleging personal injuries and death suffered in an allision of a pleasure boat and a submerged wreck, is affirmed as the marking of a submerged wreck and the refusal to remove it are discretionary decisions grounded in social, political, and economic policy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2006
• Published 10/05/2006

Judges

• PRYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, PRYOR and FAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David G. Wirtes, Jr., Richard Edwin Lamberth, Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder, Brown & Breedlove, LLC, Mobile, AL, James F. Crowder, Jr., Kimbrell & Hamann, P.A., Miami, FL, for Appellants., Stephen Gerard Flynn, Bruce Allan Ross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S.