Martha's Vineyard Scuba Headquarters, Inc. v. The Unidentified, Wrecked and Abandoned Steam Vessel, Etc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• emphasizing that \no person or firm appeared to assert any overall claim of ownership\
• acknowledging the “special role played by the writing judge in elucidating the meaning and intendment of an order which he authored”
• applying law of finds to long-lost ship without requiring express abandonment
• final decision as to who has title to artifacts is severable and appealable under section 1292(a)(3)
• “given the passage of so many decades after the sinking,” District Court did not err in applying law of finds
• \We have noted before the special role played by the writing judge in elucidating the meaning and intendment of an order which he authored.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).