Newpark Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. v. M/V Trinton Brute

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that useless-judgment exception applied to forfeited vessel because vessel had been purchased without money changing hands and was “no longer the res”; court could not “trace the res or its proceeds to a particular fund in [plaintiff’s] possession”
• applying useless judgment rule where the court found that “[u]nlike the situation in Republic [National Bank], we cannot trace the res or its proceeds to a particular fund in Newpark’s pos- session”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).