Happy Birthday 600Camp

This blog celebrated its 12th birthday last week. To celebrate properly, you can follow this day-long (?!) recipe to make a festive New Orleans style doberge cake.

A birthday tradition for 600Camp is to recall the 2013 case of Farenco Shipping Co. v. Farenco Shipping PTE, Ltd., which produced the best mootness argument of all time — a case about the seizure of a marine vessel became moot once the ship had sailed.

The M/V OCEAN SHANGHAI, recently renamed as SFERA, has avoided the Fifth Circuit’s waters ever since; as of September 19, 2023, it had just entered the North Sea to the west of Denmark.