Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 9, 1986.
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to review district court determinations that an employee who died in the swamping of a 16-foot skiff was a Jones Act seaman, and that his employer was not entitled to a limitation of liability under 46 U.S.C. § 183(a) because it had privity or knowledge of the condition that caused the accident. We are also asked to review the appropriateness...
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