Legal Opinion
Thomas Cusanelli v. Leonard Klaver, and Perko Manufacturing Corp., Perkins Marine Lamp & Hardware Corp., and Perko, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 4, 1983No. 457, Docket 82-6179PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
On this appeal from a judgment entered in the Eastern District of New York, Thomas C. Platt, Jr., District Judge, 542 F.Supp. 677, dismissing this maritime complaint against Leonard Klaver (and the United States), the essential question is whether the EL MAR II (El Mar), a grounded vessel whose skipper was a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary (Auxiliary), was a “public vessel” within the meaning of 14 U.S.C. § 827 (1976) 1 at the time a commissioned Coast Guard cutter, the CG 413-49, attempted to refloat the grounded El Mar. More specifically, the key issue is whether…
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