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PRINCIPE COMPANIA NAVIERA, S. A. v. BOARD OF COM'RS OF PORT OF NEW ORLEANS

Civ. A. No. 71-177.

333 F.Supp. 353 (1971)

PRINCIPE COMPANIA NAVIERA, S. A. v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF the PORT OF NEW ORLEANS.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

October 4, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Clann, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Cornelius G. Van Dalen, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for defendant.

HEEBE, District Judge:

To sue and not to be sued—that, insists the Board of Commissioners is the answer. The question in this admiralty case is whether the Board of Commissioners can avoid liability for a maritime tort it is alleged to have committed by pleading sovereign immunity. This question has troubled both the state and federal courts in Louisiana since the Dock Board was created1 and has led to a maze of occasionally puzzling...

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