United States Seventh Circuit

Dismissal of a personal injury suit filed under admiralty law for lack of admiralty jurisdiction is reversed where no determination was made as to whether the riverboat gambling ship on which the plaintiff suffered her injuries was indefinitely moored, and thus a "vessel" for purposes of admiralty law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/24/2006
• Decided 05/03/2006
• Published 05/03/2006

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, POSNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Basile (argued), Mark Basile & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Francis P. Kasbohm (argued), Fraterrigo, Best & Beranek, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.