Legal Opinion
Dresdner Bank AG v. M/V Olympia Voyager
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 1, 2006No. 05-10862PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Per curiam
In this admiralty appeal, we consider whether United States law was properly applied to govern a transaction between a Liberian shipowner and a Greek travel agency for travel services benefiting a Greek-flagged cruise vessel while it was in a United States port. We find that Greek law — not United States law — should have been applied. Thus, we reverse. ■
I. ' Introduction
This appeal arises out of an action filed by Dresdner Bank AG in Hamburg, Kreditandstalt Fur Wiederaufbau, and N orddeutsche Landesbank-Girozentrale (collectively, “the Banks”) to foreclose a preferred ship mortgage on a…
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