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UNITED STATES v. DIXIE CARRIERS, INC.

No. 83-3321.

736 F.2d 180 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIXIE CARRIERS, INC., Water Quality Insurance Syndicate, M/V Dixie Buccaneer and T/B ABC 2311, In Rem, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Henry J. Read, New Orleans, La., Thacher, Proffit & Wood, Sheldon A. Vogel, New York City, for Dixie Carriers and Water Quality.

Allen van Emmerik, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before RANDALL, TATE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

TATE, Circuit Judge:

The defendants, Dixie Carriers, Inc., Water Quality Insurance Syndicate, M/V Dixie Buccaneer, and the T/B ABC-2311 (hereinafter singularly referred to as "Dixie Carriers") appeal from the grant of a money judgment in favor of the plaintiff, the United States, in the Government's suit to recover its pollution cleanup costs resulting from an oil spill from Dixie Carriers' barge. The issue presented by this appeal is whether the district court properly...

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