Legal Opinion
Fairport International Exploration, Inc. v. The Shipwrecked Vessel Known as the Captain Lawrence, in Rem, the State of Michigan, Intervenor-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 7, 1997No. 95-1783PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Fairport International Exploration, Inc., filed an in rem admiralty action seeking salvage rights against The Captain Lawrence, a vessel that sank in Lake Michigan in 1933. The State of Michigan intervened under, inter alia, the Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987 (the ASA), 43 U.S.C. §§ 2101-2106, and filed a motion to dismiss. Fairport appeals from the district court’s grant of that motion, arguing that the district court erred in concluding that The Captain Lawrence had been abandoned. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.
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