“The repeal came after eight years of litigation and is apparently triggered by the State’s realization that it had no legitimate defense to at least one of the federal court claims: that Blackbeard’s Law was a constitutionally prohibited ‘Bill of Attainder’ — a bill that targets and harms an...
The plaintiff - Intersal, Inc. argues that, after it spend a decade locating the wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR), the parties entered into a contract (the 2013 Agreement) to govern the treatment of the digital media and other matters related to the QAR but that the North Carolina...
Like most conflicts, matters between Intersal (the salvage and recovery company who discovered the Queen Anne's Revenge), Nautilus (the site's video crew), and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources didn't start with rivalry or sides. It started small and friendly, a group of...
NC Supreme Court revives lawsuit over Blackbeard’s ship & lost Spanish treasure ship
The North Carolina Supreme Court this month gave a shipwreck hunting company from Florida a new day in court in a lawsuit with the North Carolina government over two shipwrecks from the 1700s, one which is...
Intersal contends in its lawsuit that the state breached a contract that gave Intersal some exclusivity to images, video and other renditions of the wreck and its artifacts. The suit also accuses the nonprofit Friends of Queen Anne’s Revenge organization of interfering in the contract. “Our case...
The conference took place on May 4, 2018 with the stated aim of resolving legal action brought against NC DNCR in 2015 by Intersal, for failure to implement a 2013 Settlement Agreement connected to the Queen Anne's Revenge - Blackbeard shipwreck. Despite requesting the mediation, NC DNCR failed...
Intersal, Inc., the Florida-based company which found the wreck of Blackbeard the Pirate's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge ("QAR") in 1996 at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, has filed complaints with the North Carolina Ethics Commission against two North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural...
Intersal, Inc., the Florida-based company which found the wreck of Blackbeard the Pirate's flagship Queen Anne's Revenge ("QAR") in 1996 at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, has filed complaints with the North Carolina Ethics Commission against two North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural...
Fayetteville videographer accuses North Carolina of violating his copyright. Florida treasure hunter also suing for breach of contract. Florida treasure-hunting company Intersal Inc., which in 1996 found Blackbeard’s wrecked Queen Anne’s Revenge just off the North Carolina coast, is continuing...
The first of two lawsuits which include the State of North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory and other government officials, the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and some of its employees was filed March 21, by Intersal Inc., a Florida-based maritime research and salvage company that...
Battle Over Shipwreck Photos Brews in N.C.
"The amendment to G.S. 121-25, if enacted, constitutes a violation of the Contracts Clause, Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution, for starters. 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1988 (attorney's fees) would also be implicated."
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Controversy Over Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Continues
Controversy Over Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge Continues
“The Friends of the Queen Anne’s Revenge entered into a contract with an independent media company and as part of this contract the spouse of the treasurer of the Friends...