WARRIOR & GULF NAVIGATION CO. v. U.S.

No. 87-7442.

864 F.2d 1550 (1989)

WARRIOR & GULF NAVIGATION COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant. WARRIOR & GULF NAVIGATION COMPANY, etc., Plaintiff, Hunt Oil Company, Insurance Company of North America, Defendants-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellant. PARKER TOWING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. WARRIOR & GULF NAVIGATION COMPANY, Defendant, United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. PARKER TOWING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee, Cross-Appellant. SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WARRIOR & GULF NAVIGATION COMPANY, et al., Defendants, United States of America, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Vulevich, Jr., Mobile, Ala., Thomas L. Jones, Charles R. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., Robert S. Greenspan, J.B. Sessions, U.S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for U.S.

G. Hamp Uzelle, III, Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, Ala., for Parker Towing Co.

James B. Newman, Coale, Helmsing, Lyons & Sims, Mobile, Ala., David L. Carroll, Rosen, Arwood, Cook & Sledge, P.A., Tuscaloosa, Ala., for Hunt Oil.

R. Boyd Miller, Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal, Mobile, Ala., for Sonat, Inc.

James P. Green, Brown, Hudgens, Richardson, P.C., Mobile, Ala., for Ins. Co. of No. America.

Donald C. Radcliff, Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Broox G. Holmes, Mobile, Ala., for Warrior & Gulf.

Michael L. Minsker, Cozen & O'Connor, Philadelphia, Pa., for Southern Natural Gas and Sonat.

Before RONEY, Chief Judge, JOHNSON and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


SMITH, Circuit Judge:

In this maritime tort case,1 the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama found that the actions of the United States (Government) on December 2-3, 1983, by and through the United States Army Corps of Engineers, were the proximate cause of the damages sustained by Warrior & Gulf Navigation Company, Parker Towing Company, Hunt Oil Company, and Southern Natural Gas Company (collectively...

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