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BRIDGES v. PENROD DRILLING CO.

No. 84-3004 Summary Calendar.

740 F.2d 361 (1984)

William G. BRIDGES, Plaintiff, v. PENROD DRILLING COMPANY, Defendant/Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. OFFSHORE LOGISTICS SERVICES, INC., Defendant/Third Party Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 4, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Clayton G. Ramsey, Bettye A. Barrios, New Orleans, La., for defendant/third party appellant.

Lawrence E. Abbott, Steven K. Best, New Orleans, La., for defendant/third party plaintiff-appellee.

Before REAVLEY, POLITZ and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

This appeal poses the question whether a roustabout/seaman on a submersible drilling rig, protected by the full panoply of traditional seaman's remedies for injury, falls into one of "the pockets of Sieracki seamen remaining after the 1972 amendments" to the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, Aparicio v. Swan Lake, 643 F.2d 1109, 1118 n. 17 (5th Cir.1981), while briefly engaged...

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