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CITY OF CHICAGO v. M/V MORGAN

No. 03-1789.

375 F.3d 563 (2004)

CITY OF CHICAGO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M/V MORGAN, Kindra Lake Towing, L.P., and Kindra Lake Towing, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 9, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myriam Zreczny (Argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel, Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Gary T. Sacks (Argued), Goldstein & Price, St. Louis, MO, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and BAUER and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.

The M/V Morgan, a tugboat pushing four barges, allided1 with the 95th Street Bridge in Chicago, Illinois. The impact disabled the bridge, severing eight of its ten electrical cables. A suit by the City followed. The district court, applying the Oregon presumption of fault against a moving vessel which strikes a stationary object, The Oregon, 158 U.S. 186, 15 S.Ct. 804...

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