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LLOYD'S LEASING LTD. v. CONOCO

Nos. 88-2450, 88-2515.

868 F.2d 1447 (1989)

In the Complaint and Petition of LLOYD'S LEASING LIMITED, As Owner, and Cammell Laird Shipbuilders, Ltd., et al., Petitioners-Appellees, v. CONOCO, Claimant-Third Party Defendant-Appellee v. Bob WHITE et al., Claimants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, Lake Charles Pilots, Inc. and Simrad Subsea, Inc. of Oslo Norway, Third-Party Defendants-Appellees. In the Complaint & Petition of LLOYD'S LEASING LTD., etc., et al., Petitioners-Appellees, v. Willis LUCAS, et al., Claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 19, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Houssiere, III, Bob Schaffer, Houston, Tex., for Bob white, et al.

Susan M. Theisen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Energy and Environmental Protection Div., Austin, Tex., for State of Tex.

Wendell C. Radford, Beaumont, Tex., for Johnson Marine and Jack's Shrimp House, et al.

James Patrick Cooney, John M. Elsley, Houston, Tex., for Lloyd's, et al.

H.S. Morgan, Jr., Theodore G. Dimitry, Henry S. Morgan, Houston, Tex., for Conoco.

Lester Lautenschlaeger, New Orleans, La., for Lake Charles Pilots Ass'n.

R. Scott Blaze, Mee Lon Lam, Deborah Kossow, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Tort Branch, Aviation and Admiralty Section, Washington, D.C., for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Otto D. Hewitt, III, Efvin A. Apffel, Jr., Michael L. Neely, Galveston, Tex., for Lucas, et al.

Ralph K. Harrison, The Wooklands, Tex., for Mitchell Energy, et al.

Before GEE, HIGGINBOTHAM, and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 19, 1989.

PER CURIAM:

In July 1984 the M/T Alvenues grounded in the Calcasieu River Bar Channel about eleven nautical miles south/southeast of Cameron, Louisiana. As a result of the grounding one of the ship's tanks cracked, spilling 65,500 barrels of crude oil into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Given the particular combination of tides and winds that existed at the time of the spill, the oil washed ashore on...

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