Admiralty and maritime law involves cases related to navigation and commerce on oceans, rivers, and lakes. Admiralty and maritime cases can involve injuries to longshoremen and vessel crew members, contracts for cargo shipping, vessel collisions, and cruise ship passenger injuries. If your issues involves ships and shipping, business or commerce transacted at sea, finds and salvage, the duties, rights, and liabilities of ship owners, ship masters, and other maritime workers, it is within the realm of admiralty law.
For the Illinois village formerly known as Vienna, see Astoria, Illinois Vienna is a city in Johnson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,234 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Johnson County, and the site of a well-known state penitentiary. Heron Pond - Little Black Slough Nature Preserve, a National Natural Landmark, is nearby. The town's name is pronounced differently from the English name for the Austrian capital of the same name.