United States Second Circuit

In an in rem admiralty action, summary judgment to claimant State of New York pursuant to the Abandoned Shipwreck Act (ASA), and denying plaintiff's salvage claim for its discovery of an historic Lake Erie shipwreck is affirmed, where: 1) clear and convincing evidence establishes that the shipwreck is abandoned, vesting title in New York; and 2) plaintiff has raised no material issue of fact to the contrary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2013
• Published 09/05/2013

Judges

• LIVINGSTON

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel