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LAW v. SEA DRILLING CORP.

No. 30657.

523 F.2d 793 (1975)

Mrs. Joan Francis LAW, Personal representative of the Estate of Wesley J. Law, Sr., etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SEA DRILLING CORPORATION and Continental Oil Corporation, Defendants-Appellants. Thomas J. LEBEOUF, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SEA DRILLING CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 7, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Sea Drilling.

Donald V. Organ, New Orleans, La., for Cont. Oil Corp.

Joy S. Miller, New Orleans, La., for Conoco.

Kenneth W. Manuel, John R. Martzell, New Orleans, La., for Law.

Philip E. Henderson, Robert L. Morris, Houma, La., for LeBeouf.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and GEWIN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING

(Opinion March 21, 1975, 5 Cir., 1975, 510 F.2d 242).

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

Defendant Sea Drilling Corporation (Seadrill) has made a substantial attack on our implicit holding that where death occurred due to injuries on the jurisdictional waters of the Death on the High Seas Act Gaudet and Moragne allow recovery for items historically not permitted

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