United States Fifth Circuit

In circumstances where the U.S. Coast Guard acted on its mandatory duty under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, not as a voluntary rescuer, in securing an moving a damaged vessel, the government may not assert a salvage claim for such action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/01/2002
• Published 07/01/2002

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, WIENER, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• T. Mark Blakemore (argued), Rentfro, Faulk & Blakemore, Brownsville, TX, for Marine Salvage & Services Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• Peter Glenn Myer (argued), U.S. Dept. of Justice, Torts Branch Civil Div., Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.