STATE OF ISRAEL v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA

No. 28771.

431 F.2d 925 (1970)

The STATE OF ISRAEL, a Sovereign Nation, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Appellee, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, Defendant-Appellee-Cross Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Ralph, Miami, Fla., for appellant; Ralph & Boyd, Miami, Fla., of counsel.

Thomas C. Britton, County Atty., Joan Elizabeth Odell, H. Jackson Dorney, Asst. County Attys., Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and GEWIN and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The good ship M/V Nili, unsuccessful in the hopes of her owner, operator and perhaps preferred-ship-mortgagee angel, the State of Israel, to tap the rich tourist trade as a cruise ship in and out of the Port of Miami continues to be occupied in litigation there, this time in the form of a sovereign pursuer, not an unwilling or reluctant pursued.1 In this case the vessel...

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