United States Second Circuit

In case involving collision of three vessels in the English Channel, order finding plaintiff vessel to be exclusively at fault for the collision that resulted in the loss of another vessel and its cargo is reversed where each of the three vessels committed violations of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, and each vessel committed at least one violation that constituted a cause of the collision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/06/2007
• Published 07/06/2007

Judges

• HALL, Circuit Judge:, Before:  JON O. NEWMAN, PETER W. HALL, Circuit Judges, DORA L. IRIZARRY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John D. Kimball, Healy & Baillie, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Third-Party-Plaintiff-Appellant., Raymond P. Hayden, Hill, Rivkins & Hayden, LLP (John Eric Olson and Kipp C. Leland on the brief), New York, NY, for Claimants-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Chester D. Hooper, Holland & Knight, LLP (James T. Shirley and Francesca Morris on the brief), New York, NY, for Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees., Lawrence G. Cohen, Vandeventer Black, LLP (Edward James Powers on the brief), Norfolk, VA, for Third-Party-Defendants-Appellees.