Legal Opinion
United States v. Members of the Estate of Boothby
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 14, 1994No. 93-1784PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Is a houseboat a house or a boat? That, in the abstract, is the enigma posed by this case. Fortunately, we need not answer it directly. As a court of law, we leave such metaphysical rumination to the disciples of Jacques Derrida, and address ourselves instead to the more tractable question of whether the Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) properly deemed two particular houseboats to be permanently moored structures within the meaning of section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, 33 U.S.C. § 403 (1988). The district court ruled that the Corps did not act arbitrarily or…
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