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PUERTO RICO PORTS AUTHORITY v. BARGE KATY-B

No. 05-1016.

427 F.3d 93 (2005)

PUERTO RICO PORTS AUTHORITY, Petitioner, Appellant, v. BARGE KATY-B, O.N. 606665, Defendant in Rem. Salmon Bay Barge Line, Inc., Intervenor, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 25, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence I. Kiern, with whom H. Allen Black III, Gerald A. Morrissey III, Winston & Strawn LLP, Jorge A. Fernández-Reboredo, Luis O. Soto-Colón, and Rivera & Fernández-Reboredo, P.S.C. were on brief, for appellant.

Christopher A. Abel, with whom Troutman Sanders LLP, Eugene F. Hestres-Velez, and Bird, Bird & Hestres were on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA and LYNCH, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal, which raises salient questions of both appellate jurisdiction and admiralty law, the Puerto Rico Ports Authority (PRPA) seeks to stem a tide of unfavorable rulings emanating from the district court. After careful consideration, we affirm the district court's order vacating PRPA's arrest of a vessel but dismiss the remainder of PRPA's appeal for want of appellate jurisdiction.

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