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HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD. v. U.S.

No. 89 Civ. 2025 (PKL).

888 F.Supp. 543 (1995)

HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD., Pohang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., The Oriental Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., The Shin Dong-A Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Daehan Fire, Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., International Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Koryo Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., First Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Haedong Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., The Ankuk Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Hyundai Marine & Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., Lucky Insurance Co., Ltd., Korea Automobile Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

May 31, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Healy & Baillie, New York City (Richard V. Singelton, II, of counsel, Todd Kenyon, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Mary Jo White, U.S. Atty. for the S.D.N.Y., New York City, Frank W. Hunger, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, New York City (Janis G. Schulmeisters, of counsel, Jack S. Rockafellow, of counsel), for U.S.

LEISURE, District Judge:

This is an action under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C. app. §§ 741-52, by the owners of the Hyundai New World and parties related in interest (collectively, "plaintiffs") against the United States of America (the "Government"). Plaintiffs allege that the Hyundai New World ran aground off the coast of Brazil in 1987 as a result of the negligent publication and failure to update an inaccurate nautical chart by the Defense Mapping...

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