BOARD OF COM'RS OF ORLEANS v. M/V BELLE OF ORLEANS

No. 06-13614.

535 F.3d 1299 (2008)

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE ORLEANS LEVEE DISTRICT, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. M/V BELLE OF ORLEANS, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 25, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Anthony Milanese, New Orleans, LA, Blane Horton Crutchfield, Norman M. Stockman, Hand Arendall, LLC, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff.

Glenn G. Goodier, J Kelly Duncan, Richard David Bertram, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant.

Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, HULL, Circuit Judge, and FORRESTER, District Judge.


FORRESTER, District Judge:

Appellant, the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District ("the Board"), appeals from the district court's order granting Appellee, M/V BELLE OF ORLEANS', motion to dismiss for lack of admiralty jurisdiction and from the district court's order denying Appellee's Rule 59(e) motion to alter, amend or vacate the order to dismiss.1 The Board sought (1) a maritime...

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