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GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK CO. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 93-1421.

3 F.3d 225 (1993)

GREAT LAKES DREDGE & DOCK COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and Jerome B. Grubart, Inc., an Illinois Corporation, Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1993.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied October 7, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duane M. Kelley, Jack J. Crowe, Winston & Strawn, Paul Kozacky, Jeffrey E. Stone, Douglas M. Reimer (argued), William P. Schuman, John T. Schriver, Stewart W. Karge, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, for plaintiff-appellant Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.

Barry Sullivan (argued), Theodore Tetzlaff, Russ M. Strobel, Richard C. Bollow, Jeffrey T. Shaw, Jenner & Block, Alan W. Brothers, Hubert O. Thompson, Lori A. Owens, Carney & Brothers, Kelly R. Welsh, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Office of Corp. Counsel, Appeals Div., Chicago, for defendant-appellee City of Chicago.

William J. Harte, and Robert A. Holstein, Aron D. Robinson, Bruce J. Goodhart, Holstein, Mack & Klein, Ben Barnow (argued), Barnow & Hefty, Chicago, for appellee Jerome B. Grubart.

Warren J. Marwedel, Dennis Minichello, Shari L. Friedman, Robert A. Roth, Robert L. Reeb, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, IL, George W. Healy, III, Maritime Law Ass'n, New Orleans, LA, for amicus curiae Maritime Law Ass'n of U.S.

Before CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and EISELE, Senior District Judge.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied October 7, 1993.*

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

On April 13, 1992, the Chicago River "sprung a leak." Mike Royko, Putting in a Plug for the City that Leaks, Chi. Trib., Apr. 14, 1992, at 3. On that date, a breach occurred in the roof of a freight tunnel running beneath the river. Water rapidly filled that tunnel and spread to the web of tunnels located throughout the city's...

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