| Wrecked
Vessel Floats On in 22 Year SDNY Case As
Parties Describes Chamber Talks
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 31 – In a case that has
been pending for 22 years,
H.M.S. Hussar, Inc. sued "The
Unidentified, Wrecked, and
Abandoned Sailing
Vessel."
On August 18, 2021 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, 2021 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.
Yet
another conference was yet on
January 31, 2022, perhaps
getting closer to resolution
through Judge Preska's
perserverance. One of the
attendees launched into a
story of their talks in Judge
Preska's chambers - a practice
Inner City Press noted in one
of her cases about Argentina -
but this time with the twist.
The
speaker asked Judge Preska if
she remembered a woman who was
present, but whom some said
they didn't know. Will this
wild card help or hinder a
resolution? We will stay on
the case.
It is
H.M.S. Hussar, Inc. v. The
Unidentified, 00-cv-121
(Preska)
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