AMERICAN DREDGING CO. v. LAMBERT

No. 94-4583.

81 F.3d 127 (1996)

AMERICAN DREDGING COMPANY, as owner of the tug Marco Island, her engines, tackle, appurtenances, in a cause of exoneration from or limitation of liability in the matter of:, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Jose LAMBERT, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Alejandro Lambert, Kim Pietruszka, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Donald R. Pietruszka and Individually, Mario Perez, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Vivian Perez, Juan Renteria, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees, Zacharia S. Gispan, Defendant-Counter-Claimant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ted L. Shinkle, Miami, FL, Mark Hicks, Ralph O. Anderson, Miami, FL, for Appellant.

Laurence F. Vallee, Miami, FL, Elizabeth K. Russo, Coconut Grove, FL, for Kim Pietruszka.

Mark D. Gilwit, Miami, FL, for Juan Renteria.

Thomas E. Backmeyer, Miami, FL, for Jose Lambert and others.

Michael J. Murphy, Coral Gables, FL, Patrice A. Talisman, Coconut Grove, FL, for Mario Perez.

Before KRAVITCH, ANDERSON and BARKETT, Circuit Judges.


BARKETT, Circuit Judge:

American Dredging Company appeals from an adverse summary judgment denying its petition for exoneration from or limitation of liability for a nighttime collision involving one of its floating dredge pipelines and a motorboat carrying four passengers, three of whom died as a result of the collision. American Dredging also appeals from the district court's denial of its motion for partial summary judgment to preclude the decedents' representatives...

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