PETROLEOS MEXICANOS v. M/T KING A (EX-TBILISI)

No. 03-2541.

377 F.3d 329 (2004)

PETROLEOS MEXICANOS REFINACION, v. M/T KING A (EX-TBILISI), her engines, boilers, etc., in rem by King David Shipping Co., Ltd., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed July 29, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremy J.O. Harwood, (Argued), Healy & Baillie, New York, for Appellant.

Terry L. Stoltz, (Argued), Nicoletti, Horning, Campise, Sweeney & Paige, New York, Andrew J. Goldstein, Goldstein, Lem & Isaacson, Springfield, for Appellee.

Before ALITO, SMITH and BECKER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Circuit Judge.

This case presents important questions about the scope of our appellate jurisdiction over the order of a district court sitting in admiralty denying a motion to dismiss a suit and to vacate a warrant of arrest in an in rem proceeding. Here, appellee Petroleos Mexicanos Refinacion ("Pemex"), the Mexican state-owned oil company, brought an action in rem against the King A, an oil tanker over which it...

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