Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
DiLuigi v. Kafkalas
59 L. Ed. 2d 772
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1979-03-19
- Topic
- general
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 | 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 | garbage search along with defendant’s prior record justified issuance of search' warrant | pilot steering a tug is not a proper lookout
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied.