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STOKES v. B. T. OILFIELD SERVICES, INC.

No. 79-3818 Summary Calendar.

617 F.2d 1205 (1980)

Gregory Earl STOKES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. B. T. OILFIELD SERVICES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anatole J. Plaisance, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Davidson, Meaux, Sonnier & Roy, V. Farley Sonnier, Lafayette, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before CHARLES CLARK, VANCE and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Courts in this Circuit are often confronted with the riddle: When is a worker a "seaman" for the purposes of the Jones Act? In the case at bar, the district court solved the riddle by granting summary judgment for the defendant, holding that plaintiff lacked a more or less permanent attachment to a vessel or group of vessels. We affirm that solution.

Plaintiff Gregory Stokes was employed as a roustabout for defendant B. T. Oilfield Services. On...

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