United States Fourth Circuit

Order prohibiting sale of artifacts from submerged wreck by plaintiff salvor-in-possession was proper, because while plaintiff has a lien in artifacts and is entitled to reward enforceable against them, it does not hold title to the artifacts.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/25/2002
• Decided 04/12/2002
• Published 04/12/2002

Judges

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

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ARGUED:  Mark Steven Davis, Carr & Porter, L.L.C., Portsmouth, Virginia, for Plaintiff-Appellant.  Neal Lawrence Walters, Appellate Litigation Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Amicus Curiae Clinic.   ON BRIEF:  Robert C. Scaro, Jr., Mark A. Stallings, Carr & Porter, L.L.C., Portsmouth, Virginia, for Plaintiff-Appellant.  Craig A. Markham, Elderkin, Martin, Kelly & Messina, Erie, Pennsylvania, for Amicus Curiae Shuttle.