| Wrecked
Vessel Floats On in 21 Year SDNY Case As
Parties Dispute Who Holds the Books
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 14 – In a case that has
been pending for 21 years,
H.M.S. Hussar, Inc. sued "The
Unidentified, Wrecked, and
Abandoned Sailing
Vessel."
On August 18, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Loretta A. Preska held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
called in, identified itself,
and covered it.
A man who
identified himself as Captain
Rob called in as well.
So too a man who
reminisced about Judge Preska
having put the litigants into
her jury room to work it out.
(Inner City Press previously
witnessed this in Judge
Preska's Argentina
case).
Then, the
speaker said, his adversary
disappeared, into the Bronx.
Now there are questions about
the partnership: the Board
Members "have no access to the
corporate books... This has
stymied the recovery / salvage
efforts of the wreck."
Judge
Preska acted to try to get the
21-year-old case to stop
drifting.
Another
conference was held on October
14, and Inner City Press again
covered it. The move now is to
consolidate cases; an argument
ensued at the end about who is
the keeper of the books, the
original books. Judge Preska
gently urged cordiality. It
involves, of course, an
Eighteen Century British
sailing vessel that sank in
the territorial jurisdiction
of the SDNY in 1780.
It is
H.M.S. Hussar, Inc. v. The
Unidentified, 00-cv-121
(Preska)
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