SEA HUNT v. UNIDENTIFIED, SHIPWRECKED VESSEL

Civil Action No. 2:98CV281.

22 F.Supp.2d 521 (1998)

SEA HUNT, INC., Plaintiff, v. The UNIDENTIFIED, SHIPWRECKED VESSEL OR VESSELS, ETC. in rem., Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

September 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony F. Troy, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, VA, David Kegebein Sutelan, Mays & Valentine, Norfolk, VA, Peter E. Hess, Wilmington, DE, David J. Bederman, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA, for Sea Hunt Inc., Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant.

Frederick Schilling Fisher, Roger L. Chaffe, office of Attorney General, Richmond, VA for Commonwealth of Virginia Intervenor-Plaintiff.

Damon C. Miller, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Lawrence R. Leonard, Office of U.S. Attorney, Norfolk, VA, Caroline M. Blanco, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Barbara B. O'Malley, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Intervenor-Plaintiff U.S. and Claimant-Spain.

George Robert Leach, Williamsburg, VA, for Claimants Alpha Quest Corp. and Richard L. Cook.


OPINION AND ORDER

CLARKE, District Judge.

The parties come before the Court on the United States' Renewed Motion to Intervene on behalf of the Kingdom of Spain ("Spain"), pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24, Supplemental Admiralty Rule (C)(6), and Local Admiralty Rules (e)(3) and (e)(13). For the reasons set forth below, the Court DENIES the motion.

I.

By Order of March 12, 1998, this Court issued a warrant for the arrest...

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