FLOTA MARITIMA BROWNING v. MOTOR VESSEL CIUDAD

Adm. No. 4096.

218 F.Supp. 938 (1963)

FLOTA MARITIMA BROWNING DE CUBA, SOCIADAD ANONIMA v. MOTOR VESSEL CIUDAD DE LA HABANA, her Motors, Tackle, etc. and Banco Cubano Del Comercio Exterior, succeeded by Banco Para El Comercio Exterior, De Cuba. BANCO PARA EL COMERCIO EXTERIOR, DE CUBA, Successor to Banco Cubano Del Comercio Exterior, Cross Libelant, v. FLOTA MARITIMA BROWNING DE CUBA, SOCIADAD ANONIMA, Cross Respondent.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

July 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Grimes and Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson, Baltimore, Md., for libelant.

Semmes, Bowen & Semmes and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., for intervening libelants.

Leonard B. Boudin and Rabinowitz & Boudin, New York City, and Niles, Barton, Gans & Markell, Baltimore, Md., for movant.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

The Plea of Sovereign Immunity and Motion for Sovereign Immunity, filed herein on May 11, 1962, by the Czechoslovakian Ambassador on behalf of the Republic of Cuba (movant) raises questions of: (1) res judicata and collateral estoppel, (2) the nature and extent of sovereign immunity in the United States today, and (3) waiver of sovereign immunity by lack of timely assertion and by affirmative acts...

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