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WOODS v. UNITED STATES, DEPT. OF TRANSP.

No. 81-3212 Summary Calendar.

681 F.2d 988 (1982)

John R. WOODS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and United States Coast Guard, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 4, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Hunter, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

William F. Baity, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The holder of a master's license challenges the Coast Guard's admonishment of him for negligence. Finding that the district court correctly upheld the Coast Guard action, we affirm.

About 6:00 a. m. on July 27, 1976, Woods was operating the M/V BILL FROREICH in the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, pushing four empty barges in tandem, each about 190 feet long. The weather was good, the day clear. As the FROREICH flotilla entered a...

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