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Spain sues to block U.S. claim to sunken treasure
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Posted on 05/30/2007 9:01:20 PM PDT by Flavius
MIAMI (Reuters) - The Spanish government filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday seeking to block claims by Florida-based treasure hunters Odyssey Marine Exploration to any Spanish property recovered from shipwrecks. ADVERTISEMENT
The suit does not refer specifically to Odyssey's claim on May 18 that it had legally recovered gold and silver coins worth an estimated $500 million from a colonial-era wreck code-named "Black Swan" at an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: omr; treasure
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:01:22 PM PDT
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
A lawsuit? Isn’t that John Edwards’ mating call?
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:02:30 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Flavius
...at an undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean.
It's Cheney's treasure!
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:03:54 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
funny you say that
thats his 19M of gold
he made money on this
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:04:54 PM PDT
by
Flavius
("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
To: Flavius
To: Flavius
If the Spanish give too much trouble, melt it down or scatter it back over a deep part of the ocean.
6
posted on
05/30/2007 9:06:47 PM PDT
by
krb
(If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
To: Flavius
That’s why I posted that remark. :-)
Poor ol’ Silk Pony, now he has idea of how we feel on 15 April.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:07:22 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
A lawsuit? Isn’t that John Edwards’ mating call? I think this is the ship that Edwards invested in the recovery company. He'll have to sue himself - and I'm sure he would find some way to profit off that.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:07:36 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: Flavius
I lost a dollar a few months ago. If anyone finds it, I’ll sue for triple damages unless you return it to me now.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:07:50 PM PDT
by
theymakemesick
(Under sharia law, bacon will be illegal in Americistan, reason enough to keep islam out of America)
To: KarlInOhio
It is the very same ship. I am sure that he’ll offer his services to the salvagers.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:08:52 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: theymakemesick
Hmmmmm, that idea has so many possibilities...
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:09:55 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: krb
If the Spanish give too much trouble, melt it down or scatter it back over a deep part of the ocean.
No, merely bomb a few train stations and they probably will give them the Crown Jewels just to be rid of them../s
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:10:33 PM PDT
by
padre35
(GWB choose Amnesty as his hill to die on, not Social Security reform.....that speaks much)
To: padre35
Reminds me of the lawyer who was so cocky that he sued himself just to prove who was the better lawyer.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:15:22 PM PDT
by
Stayfree
(*******************Fred D. Thompson for President.com)
To: Army Air Corps
Edwards is an investor, I suppose he could play both sides against each other and bill by the hour.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:18:38 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: Flavius
Somebody of Aztec, Mayan, or Inca heritage will have more claim to that loot than the Spanish do.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:20:00 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: weegee
If he smells a buck via litigation, he’ll be on the opportunity like white on rice in a snowstorm.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:20:31 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Calpernia
Isn’t this the ship you were talking about last night?
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:21:45 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
To: Flavius
Governments need to stay out of this. If private enterprise manages to find buried treasures from centuries ago, they should be allowed to keep every penny of it.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Spanish government of two centuries ago is not the same government as today.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:28:41 PM PDT
by
pjd
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Governments need to stay out of this. If private enterprise manages to find buried treasures from centuries ago, they should be allowed to keep every penny of it. Absolutely! The present Spanish government has nothing to do with this treasure that is over 200 years old.
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posted on
05/30/2007 9:32:40 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
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