DiLuigi v. Kafkalas

How later courts describe this case

• noting that oil pollution has long been a concern in this country, and tracing history of congressional legislation in this area
• third-party tugboat owner held liable under the FWPCA without a finding of sole responsibility
• tug liable under § 1321(g) for cleanup costs arising from collision between barge and rock
• defendant's private trash collector removed trash bag from defendant's property and turned it over to police
• “[Congress intended] to put the technicians in the same position as civil service employees to the extent reasonably possible.”
• "[Ajbsent proof that a person has made some special arrangement for disposition in his garbage inviolate, he has no reasonable expectation of privacy.”
• negligence, if any, of Coast Guard in not establishing more effective aids to navigation not a proximate cause of grounding of tug and barge which struck charted rock outside navigable channel in Hudson River
• trash in front of defendant's residence with drugs inside justified issuance of search warrant