Fuesting v. Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District

EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

In this suit involving the allision of a pleasure boat with a partially submerged and abandoned shrimp boat, the pleasure boat owner, Michael Fuesting, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant Lafayette Parish Bayou Vermilion District (the “District”). Fuesting argues that the district court erred in finding that Louisiana’s governmental statutory immunity law precluded his general maritime law claim and that the district court erred in finding that the District was not an “operator” under the Wreck Act, thereby dismissing…