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YUKON RECOVERY v. CERTAIN ABANDONED PROPERTY

No. 98-36015.

205 F.3d 1189 (2000)

YUKON RECOVERY, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CERTAIN ABANDONED PROPERTY, in rem, Defendant, Ocean Mar, Inc., Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 7, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Bederman, Gambrell Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, for the plaintiff-appellant.

John A. Treptow, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for the claimant-appellee.

Richard Robol, Columbus, Ohio, for the amicus.

Before: REAVLEY, REINHARDT and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

This is a contest for salvage rights to gold cargo in a shipwreck lying for a century on the bottom of the inland passage near Juneau. Yukon Recovery, L.L.C. (Yukon) appeals the judgment in favor of Ocean Mar, Inc. (Ocean Mar) granting rights to salvage the SS Islander. Yukon asserts that the district court applied the wrong standard of proof, erred in its ruling on abandonment, and erred in granting exclusive salvage rights to Ocean Mar. We...

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