Legal Opinion
United States v. Ray
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 22, 1970No. 27888PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
Triumph and Long Reefs are two coral reefs which lie in international waters about four and one-half miles off the *18southeast coast of Florida, near Miami, and are the subject of this interesting and fantastic controversy between two rival private claimants and the United States. To the District Court (Judge Charles B. Fulton), the case was reminiscent of a fairy tale.1 To the defendants, the reefs were to become an island nation to be known as Grand Capri Republic; to intervenor, a new sovereign country would be established on the reefs, to be named Atlantis, Isle of…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Wyandotte Transportation Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- United States v. City & County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- United States v. Republic Steel Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
- United States v. San Jacinto Tin Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Borax Consolidated, Ltd. v. Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Zabel v. TabbCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- State of Alaska v. Cecil D. AndrusCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
- Treasure Salvors, Inc. v. The Unidentified Wrecked And Abandoned Sailing VesselCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Miller v. Amusement Enterprises, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- County of Suffolk, County of Nassau, Town of Islip, Town of Hempstead, Town of North Hempstead, Town of Oyster Bay, Town of Huntington, and the Board of Trustees of the Town, of Huntington and Concerned Citizens of Montauk, Inc. v. Secretary of the Interior, National Ocean Industries Association, and New York Gas Group, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. Secretary of the Interior, National Ocean Industries Association, National Supply Company, Continental Oil Company, Diamond M. Drilling Company, Digicon, Inc., Dresser Industries, Inc., Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation, Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Murphy Oil Corporation, Ocean Production Company, Transco Companies, Inc. And Zapata Corporation, Intervenor-Defendants-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
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