Aqua Stoli Shipping Ltd. v. Gardner Smith Pty Ltd., Docket No. 05-5385-Cv

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• holding that “Rule B specifies the sum total of what must be shown for a valid maritime attachment”
• holding that for a Rule B attachment to issue, plaintiff must state a “valid prima facie admiralty claim against the defendant”
• noting that equitable vacatur applies only in “limited circumstances”
• discussing the 2 limited circumstances under which districts courts may exercise discretion to vacate Rule B 3 attachment orders based on equitable grounds
• requiring a Rule B plaintiff to state “a valid prima facie admiralty claim against the defendant”
• “The Advisory Committee’s notes ... nowhere intimate that the Court was also adopting the standards for vacatur that the Eastern and Southern Districts then practiced.”

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