{"id":72,"date":"2012-02-13T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/boatwp\/?p=72"},"modified":"2020-03-24T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:20:04","slug":"commercial-salvor-required-to-return-to-spain-500-million-in-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/commercial-salvor-required-to-return-to-spain-500-million-in-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Salvor required to return to Spain 500 million in treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/?attachment_id=270\">Federal Register Odyssey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/?attachment_id=269\">Verified Claim of The Kingdom of Spain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case originated by ODYSSEY MARINE EXPLORATION, INC., arresting THE UNIDENTIFIED, SHIPWRECKED VESSEL, its apparel, tackle, appurtenances and cargo in rem \u2013 much like any other \u201cfinds\u2019 case or \u201csalvage\u201d claim. The Kingdom of Spain filed a Verified Claim, based upon the Public Notice to the State Department in 2001 \u2013 relating to the policies of Governments of France, Germany, Japan, Russian Federation, Span, and the United Kingdom. Based upon Spain\u2019s 2001 position filed six years before the \u201cfind\u201d by Odyssey. A copy of the Verified Claim of The Kingdom of Spain and the Federal Register Public Notice 4614 \u2013 is available by clicking the above links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What has occurred is that the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Odyssey Marine\u2019s motion to stay an Order mandating Odyssey Marine to return coins and objects to Spain which had been removd from the \u201cBlack Swan\u201d (the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes) a sunken 19th century Spanish galleon, discovered by Odyssey in 2007. The case commenced April 9, 2007, when Odyssey Marine filed a complaint in federal district court in Tampa, Florida under admiralty and maritime law (known as an admiralty in rem action). Odyssey argued that it should either own the shipwrecked vessel under the law of finds or is entitled to \u201ca liberal salvage award\u201d from the vessel under the law of salvage. Odyssey lost the case. in September, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court\u2019s decision and ordered Odyssey \u201cto release the recovered res [i.e. the shipwreck materials] to the custody of Spain.\u201d Odyssey filed a motion to stay this decision \u2013 as it appealed the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Odyssey argued in its December 2, 2011 motion to the Circuit Court that once it delivered materials to Spain \u2013 the objects would not be returned to Odyssey if it ultimately won the case before the U.S. Supreme Court as \u201cSpain\u2019s position that it is not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts \u2026\u201d Odyssey also cited seven points of error that remain to be challenged in the case. The appellate court \u201cdenied\u201d the motion to stay Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Register Odyssey Verified Claim of The Kingdom of Spain This case originated by ODYSSEY MARINE EXPLORATION, INC., arresting THE UNIDENTIFIED, SHIPWRECKED VESSEL, its apparel, tackle, appurtenances and cargo in rem \u2013 much like any other \u201cfinds\u2019 case or \u201csalvage\u201d claim. The Kingdom of Spain filed a Verified Claim, based upon the Public Notice to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance-litigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boatlawyer.com\/boatwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}