Legal Opinion

United States v. Sexton Cove Estates, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 17, 1976No. 75-1638PublishedCited by 65 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DYER, Circuit Judge:

Sexton Cove Estates (Sexton) and its former president Ralph Oesterle, appeal from the judgment of the district court requiring, because they had violated the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S. C.A. § 403, restoration, in varying degrees, of ten canals that they had dredged shoreward of the mean high tide line (MHTL) in Sexton Cove, a part of Blackwater Sound, in Key Largo, Florida, without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). The district court, 389 F.Supp. 602, ordered defendants to completely fill five plugged1 canals, which had no connection with…

2Cases cited30 opinions

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United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1899
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United States v. Republic Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
Anderson v. AbbottSupreme Court of the United States · 1944

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3Cited by65 opinions

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