New admiralty case from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Maritime attachment has certainly been in the news these days. Well, in the admiralty news world anyway. This case sets out the standard for vacating attachment, in an interesting (slow news day) case involving oil pipelines, unpaid divers, and Mexican District Attorneys. The case is McDermott Gulf Operating Co. v. Con-Dive, and can be found here.
What this case does remind practitioners of is how federal judges, in admiralty, have wide discretion to find facts (in other civil matters, the exclusive province of juries) and those facts are reviewed very deferentially by appellate courts.
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