Legal Opinion
Power Authority of New York v. Tug M/V ELLEN S. BOUCHARD
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided March 27, 2019No. 14 Civ. 4462 (PAC)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
HONORABLE PAUL A. CROTTY, United States District Judge
On January 6, 2014, Captain Daniel Yates was navigating the Motor Tug Ellen S. Bouchard (the "Tug") and Barge B. No. 280 (the "Barge"), owned by Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc., and B. No. 280 Corp (collectively, "Bouchard" or "Defendant"), in Long Island Sound. He decided to anchor in Hempstead Harbor, but Yates misread the navigation chart and negligently ordered the Barge to drop its 6,000-pound anchor in a cable area clearly shown in the chart.1 It is alleged that the drop of the Barge's anchor caused a rupture in a submarine cable…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Power Auth. of the State of N.Y. v. M/V Ellen S. BouchardCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2020