Techem Chemical Co., Ltd. v. M/T CHOYO MARU

THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.

Relying upon recent Supreme Court cases holding that certain state attachment and garnishment procedures violate the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 1 defendants herein, a Japanese vessel and her Japanese owner, contend that the customary admiralty procedures in rem and in personam with process of maritime attachment have been used and abused by plaintiffs in a way which has deprived defendant shipowner, without due process of law, of property rights protected by the Fifth Amendment.

The case arises out of a shipment of caustic soda from France to…