In Matter of Thebes Shipping Co., decided February 7, 1980, U.S.D.C. for Southern District of New York, Docket No. 76-5638

Limitation of shipowner liability denied in major oil spill litigation (The Argo Merchant Spill, December 15, 1976)

Judge Griesa held the shipowner not entitled to limitation of liability for damages resulting fromthe foundering of the Argo Merchant on shoals 50 miles off Nantucket before Christmas 1976.