Case Name: SANKO STEAMSHIP CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2001-11-29
Citations: 272 F.3d 1231
Docket Number: No. 99-17538
Parties: SANKO STEAMSHIP CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 272
Pages: 1231–1232

Head Matter:
SANKO STEAMSHIP CO., LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 99-17538.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Nov. 6, 2001
Filed Nov. 29, 2001
Eric Danoff, Emard, Danoff, Port & Tamulski, LLP, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.
Stephen G. Flynn and Warren A. Schneider, United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellee.
Before: FERNANDEZ, RYMER, and WARDLAW, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
Sanko Steamship Co. appeals the district court's dismissal for lack of jurisdiction in a published order, 2000 A.M.C. 83 (N.D.Cal.1999), of its claim that the United States of America breached a duty to warn of a shoal in the Sacramento Deepwater Ship Channel. In determining that the United States was immune under the Flood Control Act, 33 U.S.C. § 702c, the district court relied on the "wholly unrelated" test, as more fully discussed in Central Green Co. v. United States, 177 F.3d 834 (9th Cir.1999). Since the time that the district court issued its decision, however, the United States Supreme Court reversed Central Green and established a more restrictive test for determining sovereign immunity. Central Green Co. v. United States, 531 U.S. 425, 121 S.Ct. 1005, 148 L.Ed.2d 919 (2001). Because this new test involves determination of facts that have not been fully developed, we reverse and remand for further proceedings in light of the Supreme Court's Central Green decision.
REVERSED and REMANDED.