Legal Opinion
Gulf Refining Co. v. United States
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided January 15, 1976No. B-75-201-CAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOE J. FISHER, Chief Judge.
This is both a suit under the Control Act Amendments of 1972, Federal Water Pollution, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., and an action in admiralty under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 741-752, brought by the plaintiff Gulf Refining Company to recover expenses incurred in the clean-up of a fuel oil discharge from the Barge CINDY B which belonged to the third party defendant Liberty Shell and Materials Company. The spill occurred in the Trinity River, a navigable body of water within the Eastern District of Texas, on March 7, 1972. Plaintiff’s…
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- Brady v. Roosevelt Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- De Bardeleben Marine Corp., as Successor in Interest to Blue Stack Towing Company v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Carolyn Roberts, Individually v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1974
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